Thursday, February 3, 2011

Supplies for Music Lessons

I ran downtown today to pick up some supplies for my music lessons. After my non-preparedness last time I wanted to be sure that the lessons would actually be going forward.

Considering I had beautiful service from both locations (one of which I have worked with before), I will certainly name drop.

At Rayburn Music I bought a box of five 2 clarinet reeds, a box of five 2 1/2 clarinet reeds (for my student) and a box of 10 3 Vandoren clarinet reeds for me. I also bought a reed holder for myself that will hold 8 reeds as well as a "Reed Vitalizer". Silly Rico. When will you learn that you aren't that fabulous? I would have gotten the Vandoren one, but it only held 2 reeds and was 2/3rds the price of the one I DID buy. Silly Vandoren as well!

After paying (with a mysterious 31% discount on all items...), I asked if they had any cleaning swabs, as I'd forgotten to ask. The guy working said 'yes', and asked if I was a teacher. (I had previously mentioned that I wanted the shitty reeds for a student and was not willing to buy them Vandorens!) I said that yes, I have the one student, and he gave me the cleaning swab gratis.

Folks, please frequent Rayburn Music, as I have a great appreciation for them right now.

I also stopped at Music Espresso to pick up the lesson book that my student had ordered but not received (Breeze Easy Book 1), and a folding stand. The folks at Music Espresso are great, and not only have a huge selection of sheet music and books, but will order for you anything that you need. Their staff is also friendly and knowledgeable. Please frequent Music Espresso as well!

I spent $70 at Rayburn Music and $24.33 at Music Espresso for a total of: $94.33. I also stopped at CVS for a small notepad, pencils and a sharpener for: $4.52, bringing my grand total to: $98.85.

All I forgot to pick up was: a cleaning swab for me (I didn't have the heart to ask him for two when he was giving it free), and disinfectant spray. But I can probably order those online with no detriment. It seems like most music stores have to order the spray anyways (I quickly looked around both stores to no avail -- I also checked my WW shop back home while I was there).

Relooking through Breeze Easy book 1 has gotten me excited for the lesson today. How soon she'll be playing music!

Update: This was a really good lesson -- the girl is SO excited about her instrument, and she's doing really well. It's a good thing that I picked up the supplies, because if we were waiting upon the order her mom made, we'd still be waiting for something to do!

3 comments:

  1. Girl, that potato soup sounds insanely good! There's good eating in a potato, I've never denied it. To mash it and make base for soup, however, THAT never occured to me before. My life is so much richer now :P

    No, seriously, it's a pity I'm not allowed to eat a lot of potatoes. And I do miss American corn. It's sweet and delicious, unlike the unsweetened corn one finds in India.

    I'm glad you're being a music teacher -- yay you! I hope you're being paid handsomely for it, too! (I work for free currently, and that sucks)

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  2. So, YOU are the clarinet teacher! Why didn't you say so!:) I'm amazed, in this country, since victorian times (or the equivalent), you couldn't find a teacher who walked to their students houses, it's always the other way around!

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  3. R -- The potato soup IS insanely good! And I'm making bank for the lessons, although it IS only about an hour a week :-P

    F -- I think it's more unusual to have me go to them as well, but I don't have a studio. If I took on more students, I might consider setting up a studio in the new apartment.

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