I find this thread perversely fascinating.

I am a Yank and I confess that I am baffled by the suggestion that "examinations" might get children interested in traditional music.

I am baffled on many levels.

It has not been my purely American experience that children get interested in things because they are exited by the prospect of taking a test.

But even if it were true that there is a causal relationship between the offering of examinations and interest in traditional music, it seems to me that an examination system would be the most cumbersome and least efficient way to produce the desired effect.

If you're going to encourage people to do things, why wouldn't you simply pay musicians to play and/or children to listen rather than examiners to examine?