[Svartalfiar]

How much income does it take to teach a kid piano? And why do parents not do this?

Piano lessons look to average $50 an hour, usually once a week. For a lot of people, $200 a month is expensive, especially when most sports are a way cheaper, once-a-season payment. And every kid just multiplies that. Three kids is $600 a month, on top of any other activities/tuition. And piano is not a very active activity.

Now, how does your kid practice? Buying a piano is crazy expensive, I would guess at least $500, if even that low. Digital keyboards are around $1-200, but those aren't quite the same. Not very affordable for a lot of families.

[aspasia]

vs. 40,000 a year at college . . .

You have to pay to play.

[AnAmericanMother]

You can get fairly decent upright pianos (good enough to learn on - better a good upright like a Sohmer than a lousy grand) off local yard sale sites and FakeBook sale pages for a couple hundred.

The piano market is DEAD. Everybody's buying the high end electronic keyboards instead. Steinway only made a few grands this year - and lesser piano companies are bulldozing pianos into landfills. Literally. Some people pay to have them hauled away.

You do have to pay to have it tuned regularly though.