Please make your check payable to “Children’s Piano Institute, LLC.”

Billing is bimonthly. Statements will be mailed directly to your home. At this time, we do not accept credit cards, PayPal or Venmo.

Payment in full must be received by the due date shown on your billing statement. Accounts must be current for recital participation and any lessons changes or makeup lessons to be given.

Agreement to all policies is assumed once you begin lessons.

Late Payment: Payments after the due date are subject to 1.5% monthly fee (18% annual) on any unpaid balance.

Return Check Charge: $35.00 per occurrence.

Children’s Piano Institute, LLC reserves the right to suspend and/or terminate lessons should the student’s account become delinquent.

Please note: Parent agrees to pay all costs and expenses which may be incurred by Children’s Piano Institute, LLC in collecting any amount not paid when due. This includes any and all legal fees (attorney’s fees and court costs).

Refund Amount:

Before first lesson of the semester : 100%
(A semester is Sept 1 – Dec 31 and Jan 1st – end of school year)

Before second lesson of the semester : 60%

After second lesson of the semester : 0%

No refunds or credits are given on Tuition Deposits, Registration Fees, Materials or Summer Lessons.

We do not cancel program wide. Please be sure we can reach you! Have a daytime and evening phone number on file with your teacher and our office. If you have not heard from your teacher, call them.

If your teacher cancels due to bad weather, a make-up lesson will be given at the teacher’s convenience. Credits will be issued if scheduling is not possible for the teacher.

• Two lessons per academic year (Sept. 1 – Dec. 31 and Jan.1 through the end of the school year) to be made up by arrangement with your teacher.  Makeup lessons are not given for family vacations. Most music schools have a very strict “no makeup” policy. We do our very best to offer a fair policy that respects the teacher’s time and family events.
• Unlimited in the case of teacher cancellation. Credit will be issued on the following billing statement if rescheduling due to teacher cancellation is not possible.
• There are no makeup lessons for group, summer lessons, or missed makeup lessons.
• There are no makeup lessons for lessons missed on the first or last week of any semester – no exceptions. This also includes Thanksgiving week, Christmas week, Spring Break and Easter Vacation.
• It is the responsibility of the parent to notify their child’s private lesson teacher of a field trip IN WRITING no later than 10 days prior to the date of the trip. A lesson will be rescheduled only if this criteria is met. It is not the responsibility of the private teacher to find out dates for field trips.
• Your private teacher is not obligated to switch lessons times for sports or other extracurricular activities beyond our stated makeup policy. Any accommodation done by your teacher is out of the goodness of his/her heart. Please understand that lesson credits are not given if your teacher is unable to reschedule for any of these activities. We do our absolute best to help when we can!

Please contact Nancy L Smolinski at 484-467-5000.

Discontinuing lessons is as important a decision as starting them. The first step in this process is calling (not texting) your teacher to share your concerns, consider alternatives, and if necessary, bring things to a positive end. Please note that a text message will not be accepted for lesson termination.

Please deliver your child to their teacher directly at lesson time. This applies to before and after school lessons.

Do not drop off your child and have them wait at the door unattended. Children’s Piano Institute, LLC nor its teachers are responsible for unattended students.

We want to ensure your child’s safety. Please be sure to drop your child off promptly at their lesson time and pick them up promptly at the end of the scheduled lesson time.

Children’s Piano Institute, LLC complies with all laws prohibiting discrimination in the conduct of its operations and programs. Children’s Piano Institute, LLC admits students of any religion, gender, race, color, sexual orientation, national and ethnic origin to all rights,privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the Children’s Piano Institute, LLC. It does not discriminate on the basis of religion, race, color, sexual orientation, national and ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies or programs.

Children’s Piano Institute, LLC reserves the right to change policies, fees, or waivers at any time, without prior notice.