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Author: Gandalfe
Date: 2005-12-16 16:31
I don't think so unless you have developed a very personal relationship with the instructor. We've taken ours and his wife out to dinner and music last year and this year we gave him a special music instrument calendar (http://www.lulu.com/content/125616) because he plays saxes professionally too.
So, I'm guessing this is a very personal thing. Note that we gift the garbage guy, newspaper and milk delivery people too. So, I'm guessing it really depends upon your gifting habits.
Jim and Suzy
Pacifica Big Band
Seattle, Washington
Post Edited (2005-12-16 16:34)
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-12-16 16:37
Typically yes. But it depends entirely on your relationship with the teacher.
I've always given gifts to my teachers and I get a ton of them as a teacher.
Got a $75 gift certificate last year from one family.
That was some sweet bling!
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Author: GBK
Date: 2005-12-16 16:48
Most of the gifts I get from students are in the $25 - $50 range.
I once had a clarinet student give me an extra $100 in the lesson just before Christmas.
The father works on Wall Street. He must have had a good year ![[wink]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie3.gif) ...GBK
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Author: woodwind650
Date: 2005-12-16 16:59
student just gave me a $25 gift card for GAP and another gave some great German chocolates.........Mmmmmmmmmm. as far as customary, i think it's a nice thought and i don't think you need a personal relationship to express your gratitude. i've given my teachers simple things like a book to some great spanish pastries.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2005-12-16 17:04
We usually write a nice card to everyone we have business with (and our friends, of course).
I see nothing wrong with including the teacher in one of these lists.
(We usually donate to charities instead of making presents, so the card has a rather symbolic meaning)
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Ben
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-12-16 17:10
One time I got some chocolate cocoa mix which I could tell was a re-gift.
I got a good laugh later.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2005-12-16 17:13
> German chocolates
That's heresy! Aaargh!
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Ben
Post Edited (2005-12-16 17:14)
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2005-12-16 20:40
tictactux - glad that you Swiss are finally admitting that Belgian chocolate is the only sort worth eating.
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Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2005-12-16 21:26
A small gift (like box of chocolates) with a card is enough to show your gratitude for your teacher. Nothing expensive.
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Author: Tyler
Date: 2005-12-16 22:39
My parents and I always try to get something for my teacher, because she always gives her students presents. She usually gives me a chocolate 'Symphony' bar. I was eating it after some M&M's one night for dessert. My mom said, "You already had dessert." I said "Well, this is the second movement!" lol
I'm so punny 
I stole that phrase from Clarinetgirl06 mwahahahahaha
-Tyler
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Author: BelgianClarinet
Date: 2005-12-16 22:58
David,
you must be a real specialist ;-)
Peter
though lot of Belgian chocolats are Suisse owned today, we still are ...
About the present : if you like/appreciate someone why not,
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Author: Clarinetgirl06
Date: 2005-12-17 00:27
What would music teachers like to receive? Be serious (not something ridiculous like a new clarinet or $1000). My voice teacher got me an ornament that she handmade. It's this 3D paper star that looks like it was rather difficult to make. It's purple and sparkly! Do you guys get your students presents? I have 1 student, so I may get her something (she's in 6th grade and she's a little behind in her playing, but she is an AMAZING ARTIST! She could go animate for Disney right now! I kept asking her if she traced her work and she said "no" every time. Hopefully one day we'll see her work on the big screen!)
Thanks Tyler for appreciating my phrase enough to use it! Haha!
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2005-12-17 03:10
I gave a few of my students the John Williams Clarinet Concerto CD as a gift this year, but typically I'm on the receiving end of it as the teacher. Even really small things are appreciated, as it's the thought that counts.
I'd say that my most prized gift was an embroidered hand towel which I still have hanging in my studio which was given to me by a student in 1990. It's 2 snails playing flute and clarinet with music notes above them on a white hand towel - the homemade stuff always has the most thought put into it.
This year a Doctoral Medical Student at U Penn of mine who's from China went back for a couple of weeks and got me a handpainted silk necktie with a chinese poem on it. The artwork is black and white but really gorgeous and almost looks like notes. That's probably the most fancy gift I've gotten.
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Author: pewd
Date: 2005-12-17 04:34
i just got back from a recital, with a pile of christmas candy and a very nice engraved pen. and one unusually talented middle school student took me to lunch a few weeks ago.
>What would music teachers like to receive?
starbucks gift cards
> Do you guys get your students presents?
students who make all region , yes
graduating 8th and 12th grade students, yes.
- Paul Dods
Dallas, Texas
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2005-12-17 09:21
> though lot of Belgian chocolats are Suisse owned today, we still are ...
A lot of companies is owned by [very few] few international multi brand enterprises... KraftJacobsSuchard and Nestlé, that's about it. Why should it be different than in the music industry?
I don't believe that this is necessarily a good thing.
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Ben
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Author: Tom Puwalski
Date: 2005-12-17 13:14
I think nothing says "we love your teaching" and "thanks to you our son has stayed off Crack", like an animal sacrifice!. I always prefer some form of Barbequed beast, slowly smoked works too. In a pinch something shipped from the Rondezvous, in Memphis will suffice.
It is important that the students go through a strict self-purification ritual before offering the teacher the sacrifice. This would include a 3-4 day fast, 2 days of total silence. No physical activity with oposite, or same sex for that matter, and alot of slow Kroepch studies. Only after that would a student be in the proper state of purity to properly offer the teacher a truely deserving sacrifice.
In lew of that a Backun barrel will work. Gift cards in $50 deminations are also acceptable.
I hope my students are reading This!!!!!!!!
Tom Puwalski, former soloist with the US Army Field Band, Clarinetist with Lox&Vodka, and Author of "The Clarinetist's Guide to Klezmer"and most recently by the order of the wizard of Oz, for supreme intelligence, a Masters in Clarinet performance
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Author: Meri
Date: 2005-12-17 17:51
I give a gift to my teacher, and my students give me gifts for Christmas. I also give my students gfits.
For my teacher, it's usually a bottle of wine and a clarinet CD (I know he drinks, and I know his favorite artists, I found that out the year I gave him a David Shifrin CD having no idea what to get him), though this year, it's a pocket music dictonary with a bottle of wine. He collects anything cat-related, and the wine bottle is shaped like a cat.
I usually receive chocolates and candles. I like receiving gift cards from music stores and Chapters/Indigo. Although last year one of my piano students was really paying attention to my interests, and got me the third book of the Ultimate Guide to The Simpsons!
Meri
"There is a difference between being flat and sounding in tune, and being in tune but sounding flat. The first I can live with; the second I cannot."
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2005-12-17 19:06
Many of my patients here in Western PA. are deer hunters (mostly in archery season). I always ask how they fared.
Sometimes they favor me with a pound of venizon steak or deer sausage.
I always avoid the cliche and obvious gifts such as a horsehead keychain for the lady who likes horses, or the NASCAR paperweight for the geerhead. Surely they get enough of those tzachkes.
A Barnes and Noble gift certificate is a nice choice.
Then again, so is a contraband box of Cuban Cohibas.
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
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Author: allencole
Date: 2005-12-18 03:56
I get gifts from some and not from others. Often, it's something homemade to eat. Sometimes a gif card for a local restaurant or bookstore. I have particularly enjoyed Barnes & Noble gift cards, because it often leads to my purchasing things which actually have instructional value.
I generally do not give Christmas gifts to students because it would only inflate my consumer prices and divert my attention away from instruction.
Allen Cole
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2005-12-18 04:56
Sometimes a grateful person states their intention to give me a gift.
I know that they might have limited funds.
So.......
I suggest a donation in my honor to the County Humane Society or similar charity....That way theydo not have to spend much (the recipient of the honor is not informed of the amount, so givers need not be overly burdened.)
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
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