Hey don you are in the minority good soul that you are.

Most pros dont do this and I know them and watch them basque at the swimming pools and play their gigs and head to the hills at festivals.
I had a good friend and her group do that to me. Woops we cant stay....gotta run....

Good for you don.

find some more

and make it an industry wide no exceptions standard to meet.

if you arrange for instruments to be expensive by not working with the market supply and demand well then.....you are artificially keeping barriers in place . See in this thread people cant get instruments and cant afford them because you wont teach others to make them, increase supply make only a fair realistic income and spread the word. Actually with more production more would have the instruments the demand would grow and you will still be swamped and have to train more competant people all over again. Wondrous yes.
Or you can sit on your ass, never train anyone make one or two instruments as you feel like it and keep the prices up as a result and deprive folks of music and expansion. Not good.

Hey concertina makers- spread the wealth train and hire others and get the production up, lower individual prices, make more money with volume and stop claiming to be expanding the folk when you are a constriction.

Train spread share.....

Conrad