"Nothing at all to do with passing exams: just having commonplace good manners"

Some people never seem to 'learn manners' and 'commonplace' just isn't any more... :-P

If you don't DO the right things, you don't pass the Exams, which is WHY all (well most, anyway) 'classically trained musos' tend to think the same way... :-) ... now that may not be always a GOOD THING, but at least it puts them 'all on the same page', which for orchestral music is a damn good start! :-)


This means that they all have a common (very much so!) shorthand and jargon, where everybody understands the meaning of something to be more or less the same - for a negative example of this see recent discussion on 'melodeon'... :-)

Many 'Folk Musos' being either self taught, or having had a fairly random process of acquiring their knowledge, see the world differently, not that THAT is always a BAD THING, but it IS a different process, which educates the mind to think differently.