A bit of an interesting question, that I thought I'd get some other teacher's opinions about.

Basically, I had an audition at college and was told that over the summer I needed to get some more lessons to sort out my technique etc a bit more before I start the college in September. I've now finished lessons with my teacher at school, and they don't teach privately, and I'll be getting lessons with a new teacher at college when I start.

However, I feel a bit bad about trying to get lessons until then. The person that auditioned me told me to, but would teachers really be willing to take on a student for only 7 weeks or so?

(And if so, if anyone knows someone who would in Suffolk then please let me know )

I don't see why it would be a problem to take on someone on a temporary basis over the summer - as long as you let the potential new teacher know this up front, so they aren't expecting to be taking you on permanently. I guess there might be some teachers whose schedules are very full and don't want to take on someone who isn't going to commit to permanent and regular lessons, but I imagine for the majority of teachers it would be extra income for a few weeks.

Good luck! Lucid

Short term students are no problem to me. As long as there is a specific, manageable goal to aim towards, things go well.

I hope you find a teacher to take you forward over the summer.

In your sort of circumstances I would be happy to take on a short term pupil.

The only thing I will not do now is to take on someone who receives a few lessons as a Christmas or birthday present. Someone in the past used this to get a pupil onto my books when I had made it clear that I was actually full and had no spaces. Because it was all tied in with another of my pupils I had really no option but to continue to teach the child. It was a long and sorry tale.