What’s the Best Way to Maintain Your Child’s Music Interest?
Article by Tatiana Bandurina
I once had a wonderful husband-wife pair working with me. He taught the accordion and she taught the piano. Both were extremely intelligent and communicative, but they were complete opposites when it came to professional teaching and sustaining the child’s music interest.
The husband was a maestro of the accordion who drew everybody’s admiration. But the wife always tended to stay away from the limelight. When I went to her lessons as a visitor, I saw that she couldn’t even demonstrate a proper example of a passage to her students.
But surprise of all surprises, at the end of the academic year in which both teachers had begun with fourteen students each, the pianist had all fourteen still with her, while the accordionist was left with just two!
My music school was small at that time and I suffered financial losses. In spite of the fact that the accordionist was a real maestro, I





















