How far do you travel?

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How far do you travel?, ... for your lessons ...

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Pixie*Porsche	Feb 6 2012, 07:48 AM Post #1
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 2689 Joined: 19-April 06 Member No.: 6685	Thinking about the fact I have a piano lesson this week (YAY) got me wondering - How far do you travel? How did you pick your teacher?

louise1712	Feb 6 2012, 08:00 AM Post #2
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 7186 Joined: 19-June 09 From: North Yorkshire Member No.: 68484	about a 25mile round trip for me so not too bad. Found this teacher through a local(ish) music school, had a trial lesson and decided almost on the spot. Very lucky not to have had to trawl through websites etc.

Pixie*Porsche	Feb 6 2012, 08:04 AM Post #3
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 2689 Joined: 19-April 06 Member No.: 6685	I travel a 40 mile round trip to my piano teacher! Mind you I did viola or a bit and that was 60 miles ... which did have some bearing on me giving up! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

Maizie	Feb 6 2012, 08:06 AM Post #4
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 4862 Joined: 5-February 07 From: Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire Member No.: 9360	20 miles each way for me. I used to work about half way there, but now I work at home so it's 20 miles each way proper now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) How did I find my teacher? By trawling and trawling and trawling and eventually finding an actual proper recorder specialist - haven't yet found one that's closer (not that I'm looking, though briefly did glance around a couple of weeks ago when it looked like I was going to be teacher-less!)

lottie	Feb 6 2012, 08:14 AM Post #5
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 3902 Joined: 15-January 07 From: In among the purple heather of Scotland Member No.: 9057	My viola teacher lives about 10 minutes drive away which is amazing given that I live in the country in the middle of nowhere!!! She was my first choice because of that when I was looking for a teacher but we actually got on very well from the start and I was hugely relieved that she decided to offer me a place. Slightly off-topic: orchestra is a half hour drive at night which has actually put me off going, especially in the winter. It's on narrow country roads over a fairly high hill which is very unpleasant if there's snow or even ice. It starts at 7.30 and often doesn't finish until 10pm which is very late for me so I'm not going just now. Even in the summer I find that too late because I'm a morning person, up around 6am, and my brain tends to shut-down about 9pm (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) I would be happy to drive even as far as the city (about an hour) if there was a musical group that met during the daytime. There's another evening orchestra there but it's for diploma-level players.

Celloman26	Feb 6 2012, 08:27 AM Post #6
Member Group: Members Posts: 71 Joined: 1-November 11 From: London Member No.: 346943	about 5 mins walk - he lives other side of the road from me! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I picked him due to location (found him randomly on a teacher's website). We got on right away and the convenience of having lessons pretty much anytime that suits is a big bonus! Was very thankful of this yesterday, but even so, found carrying a cello on one's back in ice and snow is a little unnerving and I shan't be doing it again! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Arundodonuts	Feb 6 2012, 08:35 AM Post #7
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 4955 Joined: 14-May 08 From: Stockport Member No.: 30881	About 10 minutes drive from work (I go before or after work depending on shifts), so very handy. I was passed on to her by my first teacher (I didn't drive her away, she left of her own accord, honest) who I found through a combination of musicteacher.co.uk and hearing her play.

PianoNotes	Feb 6 2012, 08:48 AM Post #8
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 907 Joined: 13-January 10 Member No.: 87217	Three hours round trip for musicianships lessons. Teacher found on this forum. 20 minutes walk to new piano teacher found on musicteachers.co.uk.

Hedgehog	Feb 6 2012, 09:50 AM Post #9
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 4266 Joined: 25-May 05 From: Suburbia Member No.: 3747	About 40 miles round trip. Found her by reputation having seen her give a masterclass-come-workshop.

katemorrisviolin	Feb 6 2012, 09:55 AM Post #10
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 517 Joined: 27-September 11 From: Guernsey Member No.: 322745	I found my teacher by asking a music teacher at my son's school, who does the school orchestra my son plays in, if she knew anyone who would take on an adult beginner. Fortunately she did. Guernsey, where I live, being only 6 miles wide, he is not too far away! I walk to my lesson which takes 45 minutes. I could drive, but I am trying to keep fit too. Bit it's nice, as I arrive all warm and awake. I realise I am extremely fortunate. Before we moved here I did a 2 hour drive round trip for music making.

niobe	Feb 6 2012, 10:24 AM Post #11
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 253 Joined: 10-January 10 From: West Sussex Member No.: 86863	QUOTE(Pixie*Porsche @ Feb 6 2012, 07:48 AM) Thinking about the fact I have a piano lesson this week (YAY) got me wondering - How far do you travel? How did you pick your teacher? Just a few steps to open my front door! Very lucky, no travelling required. One of my young language students is a keen pianist and his mother asked their piano tuner to recommend a good teacher in my own area. So that's how I found my teacher. She's great, very patient -don't know how she puts up with me!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/winter_brr.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piano.gif)

Chime	Feb 6 2012, 11:45 AM Post #12
Newbie Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 8-August 11 Member No.: 298061	I've only a ten minute tram trip - either from work or home (sometimes I go straight from work, sometimes I go home first - it's on a Friday evening). It's about the same to cycle which I do in the Summer. Found my teacher though the place I bought my piano (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

BitterSweet	Feb 6 2012, 12:07 PM Post #13
Prodigy Group: Members Posts: 1282 Joined: 13-August 08 From: Edinburgh, Scotland Member No.: 37220	I must be one of the closest then! My teacher lives less than ten minutes walk from my house, and given the route I usually walk "around the corner" is pretty much accurate! I searched on google for singing teachers + Edinburgh, and then found a few who looked good. Went to sample lessons with as many as I could, and picked my teacher through a combination of getting along with her, feeling she was able to teach to the standard I was at and being a little more affordable than some of the people I saw! I actually enjoy working with my teacher so much, I am hoping to be able to pay her to teach me piano as well, since that's also something she teaches, and she'll already know that my focus is learning to accompany rather than perform solo.

saxophile	Feb 6 2012, 01:30 PM Post #14
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 853 Joined: 9-July 09 From: Yorkshire Member No.: 70062	Just the distance between the kitchen and the room next to it, since Son No.2 has his lesson first and therefore is deputised to open the front door when teacher arrives (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) !! We travel about a 10 mile round trip to take Son No.1 for his trumpet lessons. Our teacher probably has about a 6 mile round trip to come to us for piano and sax lessons. We got lucky with our piano / sax teacher - first name we phoned from the musicteachers.co.uk website for our locality. He came for a trial lesson for Son No.1 and was just fab. We went on from there. Trumpet teacher used to teach Son No.1 at primary school via the local music service, and we switched to private lessons with him shortly after Son No.1 went to high school.

BadStrad	Feb 6 2012, 01:36 PM Post #15
Prodigy Group: Members Posts: 1535 Joined: 28-January 10 Member No.: 88756	I travel 16 miles - half an hour, each way, so an hour altogether. Teacher was recommended by a violinist friend who didn't fancy teaching me as she lives even further away. Now teacher normally comes to me. I have my lesson then make us all dinner while he and Oh play duets. OH travels 46 miles - 92 mile round trip, about an hour and a half each way. I found his teacher on School of Everything (from a recommendation on here), before that he was travelling 2 and a half hours each way to RWCMD.

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