[TPIN] Get out and be heard, for free maybe

[Achias1 at mchsi.com]

Although I've been told by organists that I play with that I am the best wedding
trumpet player around and also the cheapest, I haven't raised my price to the
level the other guys are getting yet because I'm not getting very many gigs lately.

I feel that if I were busier than I wanted to be with weddings, I could charge
more, but since I'm not, hopefully my cheaper price will be an incentive for hiring.

And honestly, my modesty tells me that I'm not really that good to be asking for
that high of a fee. Unusual for a trumpet player, eh?

Dave


> I'd like to chime in on this one. Several years ago, I was on a gig 
> with a colleague who makes virtually all of his living playing his 
> horn. He teaches very little. As we talked, I asked him what he 
> charged to play a wedding. He told me that he charged $200. At that 
> time, I was charging $150. In the weeks that followed, i asked 
> several other colleagues in my area what they charged. They all 
> charged $200. I decided that I would raise my rate to match what they 
> were charging.