What is the most expensive thing about learning koto instrument?

The most expensive thing about learning guzheng is the tuition fee.

Many people think that the most expensive is the guzheng, in fact, it is not, compared to the piano, violin, saxophone and other instruments, a guzheng, the cheap is more than a thousand (I am now using the guzheng, seven hundred dollars to buy, with more than ten years, the sound quality is still very good.) You can get a mid-range koto for three to five thousand dollars, and tens of thousands of dollars for a very good koto.

The investment in buying a guzheng is a one-time thing, and if you don't have excessive requirements, you can use it all the time without changing it.

After buying a guzheng, you have to start learning. I don't support the suggestion of learning by following videos on the internet. Although the fee is low, but the guzheng has a lot of traditional techniques and skills, the teacher face-to-face teaching, are not necessarily learn well, let alone just follow the video.

Tell us about the charges here. Zhengzhou, Henan Province, the capital of the second-tier cities.

Ten years ago when I learned guzheng, followed by Zhao Manqin masters of a student, when she just came out to do the teaching, charges relatively low, then prices are low. I followed her to the big class. Big lessons are called big lessons for more than three people, and small lessons are called one-on-one or one-on-two lessons. The big class I took was for four or five people, and I was charged eighty dollars a month for four lessons, one hour for each lesson, which only amounted to twenty dollars. Now that I think about it, it was a bargain.

And now, this teacher's fee, for a large, 50-minute class, is $100. A small one-on-one lesson is $150. This price is very conscientious in our area, because the teacher's level is OK. I have a relative's child, follow a master to learn guzheng, a lesson 400, the master is not too willing to teach, a winter, went to Hainan on vacation, March and April do not come back, the child had to practice at home.

Even on a medium teacher's big class, four hundred a month, a year is nearly five thousand dollars, a good teacher, will be more expensive, and the guzheng to test through the tenth grade, the normal words need to be four or five years of time, so calculate, the cost is not low.

At the same time, there is also a fee for the exam, which varies according to the level of the exam. But it's not that expensive, it doesn't seem to be more than two hundred dollars a test.

So the most expensive part of learning the guzheng instrument is the tuition fee. Want to learn guzheng friends, learn before to think about it, don't buy the piano, pay tuition, and feel the heartache, or pay tuition, and do not want to learn, a waste of money.