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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.