A Day in the Life of a Piano Teacher

Posted by MaryO on March 24, 2015

Four students.

The Model Student and the Bored Teenage Student:

The Can’t-Stop-Playing-Even-When-the-Teacher-Is-Talking Student and the Whiny Student:

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