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Re: lessons - how much $

Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-07-28 18:31

I'm lucky in that my oboe teacher lives about 5 miles from me and only charges me £19 an hour (though more often than not my oboe lessons do run on over an hour and she still charges me only for the hour) - and the fact she's an ex pro as well - most pro oboists or oboe professors will charge at least double that amount here, and unless you're loaded they're out of most people's pockets, and chances are there's still the train fare on top of that as most live or teach in the big cities.

There are a lot of county teachers that charge a lot more than that, and can't even play the oboe (or even their main instrument) to save their lives, though it makes me wonder why they're employed by the county - it's clearly a case of it's who they know, and not what they know.

At least going to a specialist for lessons (on any instrument) means they can demonstrate things that they know and use all the time, like certain fingering short-cuts when getting around some tricky passages instead of sticking to the basic fingering charts and getting all stressed. Or the "if it works, use it" philosophy for using an unorthodox fingering for a certain note which works better than the full or standard fingering in that specific situation.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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