And, Stim, there are four-year college music students who can both play by ear AND play from sheet music note for perfect note. But--they don't make it into any orchestra because they lack the musicality to both read what's on their music stand and follow the conductor at the same time.

Innate musicality. Or in another word--talent.

This lack of talent certainly does not mean the don't want to be in a music group.

But likewise, being able to recite "To be or not to be" in absolutely perfect iambic pentameter doesn't, by itself, qualify one to ba a Shakespearean actor.

The fact that they can read notes--or words on a page--perfectly is NOT the problem.

Don Firth