“Music lessons are very expensive normally,” Alan explained. “So we desperately try to keep it as low as possible.”<\/p>\n
Alan has been teaching piano at Pianos, Pies and Pirouettes in Scholes, for more than 20 years. He provides four free lessons to new starters – after which, each lesson costs \u00a37.50. <\/p>\n
“Half my life is spent begging, stealing, borrowing money off anybody we can get our hands on to give us money,” Alan said. “I work 70 to 80 hour weeks – I have 60 pupils.<\/p>\n
“That’s why I’ll still be teaching piano when I’m 103 – I’ve spent all my personal pension money on this.”<\/p>\n
Alan began teaching after his wife, Winifred Anne Gregory, died from cancer at the age of 48.<\/p>\n
He said he knew his “life would be over” unless he found something else.<\/p>\n
“Piano is what saved me,” Alan said. “I want to do the same for other people.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Music lessons are very expensive normally,” Alan explained. “So we desperately try to keep it as low as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-514144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}