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Re: How much do top US players charge for private lessons on average?

Author: kdk
Date: 2025-08-08 17:54

brycon wrote:

> With regard to the Marcellus thing, $500 in 1980 is about
> $2,000 now. I imagine that amount stems from some urban legend
> and has ballooned over time. But if it were true, I think it's
> morally troubling for already financially successful players to
> charge young musicians such exorbitant rates.

I've always wondered if those were really the rates the big name players charged or if they were meant to discourage every young player and his cousins from asking for lessons. Are there anecdotal accounts of what Marcellus's non-matriculating students actually paid? I wonder if he negotiated lower fees once he decided the student was worth keeping. Maybe $500/lesson was just what he told prospective students over the phone or in his initial responses to them. And what he continued to charge a student he really wanted to drop.

Karl

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