Klarinet Archive - Posting 000756.txt from 2004/08

From: "Karin Berman" <berman@-----.ca>
Subj: RE: [kl] building a studio/music stores
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:28:57 -0400


>Music stores have not been mentioned yet in this thread!

>Stores need a list of available teechers as part of their sales pitch.
>Of course, stores want teachers who they expect will keep students
>interested in music long enough to purchase an instrument.

Where I live, there are no clarinet teachers, so I travel 120km for my
lessons. These are at a music store which also has a "conservatory". This
place is run very well, and is very busy. My husband goes there for sax
lessons. My daughter for singing lessons. And yes, the teachers there are
either professionals who teach at the university or are non-affiliated
teachers who have some sort of deal with the store. Music students from the
university also teach there, but for a lesser fee than the professionals.
The store's conservatory has a lesson manager, whose sole purpose is to
arrange the students lessons and make sure everyone can be fitted in
somewhere. My own teacher is a senior student, busy with his masters,
well-known for his virtuosity and he teaches me what he is taught by his
professor. (Or whatever new he learns at workshops!) I am very happy with
the set-up. I would never have found a teacher if not for the store.

Karin Berman

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