How much are private flute lessons?

[harman]

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I looked quite a while ago and prices in the West Mids were between £15 and £25 for a 30 min lesson.

Can I ask how much the school lessons were ??

Dd1 wants to learn to play the flute but our school charge £72 a term and don't offer any bursary.

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Jesus christ, that is alot.

I think it's such a shame that all kids don't et an equal chance to learn to play an instrument.

I will be telling Dd1 no unless xp comes up with the money which is highly unlikly.

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that is a shame Harman

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I paid dd1's flute teacher £11 per half hour lesson. We're in London. £25 sounds like a lot of money -- are you sure that's not the hourly rate? I pay ds's cello teacher £20 per half hour, but she travels to us so that includes her travel time and costs.

Do you have a music college near you? You might be able to find a student at music college who'd be happy to give her lessons for less. Or does your local authority hae a Saturday music scheme? Or is that what you're already doing?

Harman there is a music shop near me that does hire purchase on instruments (I enquired recently about a clarinet for me!) and they also do lessons on the premises. Recorder lessons are £12 for 30 mins, individual tuition so I suppose flute would be a bit more than that. Let me know if you want details, if I remember rightly you are also in Kent.

Here it's £10-12 for a half-hour lesson. Doesn't seem to vary much, just about everyone sticks to this sort of range. Mine have 10 lessons per term, so bill of £120 per term.

Could you ask to switch to a lesson every fortnight instead of weekly? I know that isn't ideal by any means, but if it makes the difference between giving up and not. I know someone who did just that when things got a bit tight.

I am shocked at the price you pay for the lessons.
I pay £190 for a school's yr of lessons for dd,that's 30mins a week from sept to july.

I am selling her old flute for £200 if you are interested ,it's a Yamaha student one.

ggirl, is that primary or secondary school?

At our primary school, woodwind and brass lessons are £40 a term, but that is for approx 20-25 mins a week, and often a shared lesson. It is also subsidised by the county music service, so not the true cost.

At secondary school level, or indeed any private teacher outside of school, I do not know of anyone charging less than £8 for 30 mins, and the norm is £10-12.

I just wondered if there is a music trust or similar that might help you out - where are you?

portonova-she is in secondary school,but I am sure it is sibsidised by the school in some way.
SHe has an individual 30 min lesson in flute workingn towards gr 7 at the moment.

We must be very lucky I guess??

My son has school flute lessons. They are about £50 a term.

For the first year, we hired a flute from a music shop for about £15 a month but then, after a year, we bought the instrument and a lot of what we had paid in rent went towards the price of the instrument. It was still about £80 to buy, but that was because we bought a good instrument. We could have bought a cheap instrument and paid nothing for it because the rent we had paid covered it.

What you are being asked to pay does seem a lot, but I am sure that private lessons would be more expensive unless you could get together with other parents wanting flute lessons and share the lesson with them.

Dh charges £20 per hour for private lessons. A young child or beginner would only need half an hour.

The school however probably pay out between £24-£35 per hour for lessons depending on whether they employ a teacher directly or go through the LEA music service.

One secondary school in the next town to us offers all its GCSE music students one free half-hour instrumental lesson per week. Unfortunately, ours doesn't!

Our secondary school doesn't use the LEA music service, but nor does it actually employ instrumental teachers. It offers them free use of practise rooms, then the contract is between the parents and teachers directly.

We do get 10% discount for all Yr7s taking music tuition, but then the discount stops!

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