Reasons customers gave for coming to lessons here

1. Your web site was very good.
2. You were close to where I live.
3. Your rates were more reasonable.
4. You sounded very knowledgeable.
5. You were more helpful that other studios.
6. You taught the style of music I wanted to learn.
7. You were more enthusiastic about you program.
8. The available lesson time was perfect for my schedule.
9. You had lessons on Sundays, the only day I do not work.
10. I did not get a return call from the message that I left at another studio.
11. I liked only having to commit to one month at a time and not a full semester.
12. I wanted a more mature teacher with lots of experience and not some young kid.
13. You were the only one that answered the telephone instead of getting an answering machine.
14. You had lesson hours later at night than other studios that I needed due to having to working late at times.
15. Your web site indicated that you teach music in a very broad, varied, and through way that I thought would be very good for my child.
16. Your payment schedule at the end of the month for the following month is a convient and an easy way to remember when the payment is due.
17. After reading through your web site I got the impression you love teaching & would be a very nice caring person that I wanted for my child.
18. Parents can sit in on lessons with children taking lessons* or in waiting room during the lesson. The waiting room has daily paper, magazines, and TV
19. Your web site was very thourough and informative that I knew you would be the kind of teacher I wanted to work with.
20. I did not have to go to more than one teacher for the two instruments me or my children wanted to learn. It is convient to do both lessons on same day right after each other.

* Parents are encoraged to sit in on lessons for children ages 4 through 9. Parents should sit in with any age child for first lesson due to the many things that would need to be discussed.

Reasons customers gave for leaving another studio

1. Your web site was so much better than theirs.
2. Their teacher had died.
3. I was not learning much.
4. I did not like the teacher.
5. Teacher canceled to much.
6. Teacher moved away.
7. The studio went out of business.
8. Lessons not available in summer.
9. Teacher went on road to play with band
10. Not enough attention given to student during lesson.
11. Teacher to strict and made unreasonable demands for progress.
12. Several changes of teachers during the time we were at other studio
13. Studio canceled lessons on a particular instrument due to not enough students on schedule.
14. Teacher at the other studio was incompetent.
15. Could not get an appointment for lessons that worked with my scheduled.
16. I missed one lessons in eighteen months and the studio would not make up the lesson.
    

I teach the Guitar | Bass | Piano | Violin | Trumpet | Flute | Clarinet | Saxophone | Viola | Cello | 4 -string Banjo | 5-string Banjo | Mandolin | Harmonica | Organ | Drums | Trombone | Flugelhorn | Cornet | Accordion | and others...

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