the best musicians, to me, are like teachers, it's there right from the moment they're born

This isn't knee jerk, it's total, considered anger at such utterly ignorant, dangerous, malicious stupidity. Just when you thought you must have heard the ultimate, this loud-mouthed prat comes out with even more outrageously misinformed bilge.

But what can you expect from someone who doesn't believe in school attendance and glories in gaining no qualifications, with the possible exception of a GCSE is dumbed down, MOR pop?

So Mrs Route thinks musicians are born playing instruments? Yeah, right. Wouldn't occur to her to consider the countless hours of practice, of research, of rehearsal. Because for her everything's got to be instant, manufactured plastic, pink-tinged candy-floss, lacking in substance, throwaway worthlessness. News for her: even the Lakepersons spent their early years learning their craft. And Seth actually can play his violin (as opposed to abusing it) when he wants to, though unfortunately he's not currently doing so.