How our lesson rooms work

We ask your written permission before we share any photo of your child, on this site, in newsletters or on social media, and you can change your answer at any time. We never put a child's name with a photo, and the photos on this site are examples until we replace them with our own.

Please keep a student home with a fever, a stomach bug or a bad cough, and tell us by text or a call so we can offer the time to someone on the waitlist. A cold is fine for guitar; tell your teacher and come.

We close for a week at Thanksgiving, for two weeks in winter and on a few holidays. We text families by midday when snow or ice closes the building, and a lesson we cancel is made up.

A parent or grandparent walks younger students to the lesson room and waits in the front room. We hand a student only to the grown-ups on your pickup list, and we ask for ID from anyone we don't know.

A parent or grandparent may sit in on any lesson. Guitar night is open to families and friends: arrive early, silence phones and clap at the end of each piece.

Tell us in writing a month before your last lesson, by email or at the front desk. We explain what happens to a session in progress.

Wear what you can play in. Short sleeves and trimmed nails on your picking hand help, and a footstool is in every room. On guitar night, wear a clean shirt and trousers or a skirt, nothing fancier.

Phones stay in a pocket or a bag during a lesson. A teacher may ask to record a passage so you can practice from it at home.