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Getting Clarinet Students

Author: kthln.hnsn
Date: 2013-09-19 13:41

It seems I have tried everything to gain clarinet students in the area I live (it is a dying papermill town). I have offered the first lesson free, I do not have high prices by any means (and even then I am not in this for the money, I genuinely just want to teach clarinet because I love to!), I have advertised online, made fliers, and I just am at a loss of what to do. This just seems like a terrible area for music lessons if you are not a piano teacher or violin teacher, but I don't want to believe that if I don't have to. I am the only clarinet teacher within a 25 mile radius of this town, I believe. There are no adult music groups to join in this town, the nearest one is about 30 minutes away. The schools seem quite involved in music, mainly orchestra. Perhaps there just honestly is no interest in wind instrument lessons?

So I am looking for any ideas from you all as to how I can (hopefully) gain students! I have thought of doing a master class, but then realized I've only been to one of those in my career and I don't have a degree in music (do I need to in order to do a master class??) so I am not sure I'm the best candidate to hold a clarinet master class.

Any thoughts or ideas?

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