2025 Changes
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2025 Changes
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Changes this year.
- Fall 1 and Fall 2 sessions are now just Fall Session.
- Classes increase from 6 to 7 weeks per session.
- Class fees are $35 per 7 week session.
- No Saturday classes.
- Centers closing at 8pm with one exception.
- Fewer music classes offered.
- More dedicated piano class groupings: Piano 20, 21.
- Transfers to another center require permission.
- Reduced operation hours mean class cuts.
- Classes with less than 2 students are dropped.
- Strings, guitar, and ukulele exceptions until Fall.
- Upper level piano classes cut for new piano classes.
Other instructor resources.
- OSU, Otterbein, Capital universities grad students.
- Music and Arts private lessons.
- Jazz Arts Group youth program. Scholarships avail.
- Alternate private lesson weeks with another famly.
- Church musicians sometimes give private lessons.
- Work exchange. Lessons in exchange for chores.
- Private lessons average $45 each half hour.
- Homeschool co-ops sometimes offer music lessons.
- Kid fundraisers: shovel snow, rake leaves, wash cars.
- Go fund me fundraiser.
- FREE piano course series at Columbus Metro Library.
- Stanton's Sheet Music at 5th and Mound in Columbus.
- Online music instruction.