Cost of Music Lessons...

[fourlittlekangaroos]

Ok, we spend far too much. How much does a music lesson cost where you live? Is everything more expensive in the south? We pay £20-21 per lesson, 2 instruments each for 3 children...
I think we all need to become vegetarians. There's no extra money to do any holiday music activities (lots in our area) and it's easy to feel hard done by when friends are whizzing off to all sorts of Pro Corda type things. I keep telling our children what a privilege it is to even have a piano in the house, let alone have lessons! I need to remind myself that too.

[Melfish]

Going rate round here (outer SW London) is £20 per half hour individual lesson. That’s what mine and DD’s teachers charge (all different teachers).

[April2020mom]

I teach recorder. I have a recorder in my apartment somewhere. We are planning to start teaching recorder lessons to DS and DD next month. I need to get a recorder book first.

[dairymilkmonster]

We pay £22 for 40mins individual cello lesson. Same price for any instrument - external teachers coming into a prep school - you can choose 30 or 40min lessons. Preprep can do 20min lessons.
Recorder group lessons are half the price, 2-3 per group.

[NotAnotherJaffaCake]

£44/hr for piano here after April (currently £40). School offer 30 mins for £18, so not a million miles away. We only have a piano because I play; I'd find it very difficult to justify spending serious money on a piano for a child if I wasn't sure they would stick at it.

it's one of my bugbears about music - just how exclusive it's becoming. We go to one of the Guildhall Saturday schools and it's a sea of private school hoodies. The fees are in the low hundreds a term (to be fair, quite reasonable for what you get) but compared to £6/session plus kit for football, it's very expensive. So many children just don't have access to music.

[chickensandbees]

£15 for half hour for most instruments in the south west.

[HettyStThomas]

Through school DS1 has 1x 30/40 min guitar lesson a week. I pay £65 a term

[SlaaartyBaaardFaaast]

In Wales, I am paying £15 for 30 mins home based classical guitar tuition (1 to 1) and £20 an hour for piano lessons.