String quartet for just an hour…
Like many groups, we rarely take on bookings of less than two hours (or three hours on peak Saturdays over the summer) - as it’s simply not viable to break up a full day for just one hour of work. However, there are a couple of circumstances where we make an exception to this rule - one would be if the booking is extremely local to us in Buckinghamshire and of a very last minute nature: if musicians aren’t already committed to other work, then we can sometimes take on these shorter bookings. The other occasion that a string quartet or string duo can be booked for just one hour is when we already have another booking confirmed in our diary for later on in the day (perhaps providing music for an evening function) and the two engagements are relatively close in distance.
Of course, there are weddings where music is literally only required for the arrival of the guests, the ceremony itself, exit of the couple and the photographs - so only an hour or an hour and a half is really needed. If the wedding is late morning (or lunchtime) and we are already booked to play for a wedding reception from mid afternoon onwards, then this can work out well and be a relatively inexpensive way to hire a string quartet for a wedding ceremony!
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