Independence School of Music - Independence Ohio - sitemap 

Private lessons  - Piano - Guitar  - Drum - Strings - Flute  - Oboe  - Clarinet - Trumpet - Trombone - Saxophone - Percussion  -

A typical day at the Music School is of course filled with music. Our studios are comfortable and spacious. When the door to a music studio is closed, you can not hear a normal conversation outside the studio... but they are not sound proof. So snippets of music permeate the whole building.

Some teachers are in the habit of teaching with their door open from time to time.  This adds to the ambiance, and makes it sound even more like a music school.  In our retail area, we have an open mic setup with an amp. Many of our customers will pick up a guitar and try it out. Lots of bit of sound coming from all over.

The high school students have contest this weekend. One of our trumpet students needed a place to practice, so we had him set up with his quartet in the center of our store. Trumpets are very loud... enough so to draw an audience!

Another high school student stopped in to get some swab because she was having some trouble reaching the low notes on her clarinet. She had been practicing a lot in preparation of contest, and she thought she might need to dry it up a bit. A short while later, she called back explaining that the problem did not go away. So we had her bring the clarinet in so we could take a look at it. My associate tried the old dollar bill trick, but that did not help either. Unfortunately, Ian our instrument technician lives about an hour away, and was not available to look over the instrument. We were able to point her in the direction of another area music store who does had a repairman on staff. She is not a lessons student at our store, but I know her dad, so I made a note to call her and see how she did at contest.

Someone came in to pick up a case for an Alto Saxophone. The hard shell saxophone case we special ordered for her did not fit. But she liked one of our soft shell, padded sax cases even more, and it was less expensive.

Another neighbor brought in his son for his first piano lesson. After introducing them to his new piano teacher, he spent a few minutes with her, describing his son's personality and study habits. The lesson went well, with big smiles for dad afterward. He also plans to win the free Starcaster Guitar we are raffling off at the end of the month..

One of Ms. Cammy's adult voice students came in for her lesson. I met her at a Christmas party a few years ago. What a fun student. She sings in at least 7 different languages.

A student came in to get some cheap drum sticks. We were not able to help him, because we only stocked the more expensive drum sticks. I will solve this problem next week. While we do not want to sell junk, I am going to add some low end price points in all of our accessories.

Lots of walk ins stop by to pick up reeds for their woodwinds. Most seem to like Rico reeds. We have a lot of clarinet students and saxophone students.  The same goes for violin strings and guitar strings.

Since we change some of our lessons every hour on the hour and some every half hour, we get pretty busy on the hour, and half hour. And a few of our teachers work on what they call MST "Musician Standard Time" This means that student who needs more time, get more time. So by the end of the day, they are running 15 or 20 minutes late. This is easy enough to adjust, by scheduling a half hour of free time during the day, for these teachers to catch up.

Most of our private music teachers like to stop by for their print music around  before we get busy with lessons.

A flute teacher stopped in to pick up a few books. I invited her to give me a list of all the books she would like us to stock. She told me that she had been buying her flute books at some internet website, but now that she knows we stock them, she will begin getting all of her books for her 35 flute students from us. She likes our proximity, so that she does not always have to leave her studio to pick up music.