Musket: I also appear to hate music that I have cherished throughout my life.

When you use phrases like "old tit trousers tuning up his finger / ear instrument", yes, funnily enough, that is the impression you give.

BH: I also wonder if we are the only country in the world where there is an element who have difficulty in acknowledging new music as part of, and continuing a tradition, and giving that new music the same name as the tradition.

I'd be amazed if we were - apart from anything else, "giving that new music the same name as the tradition" sounds like a recipe for confusion wherever you're doing it. I read the other day - probably on Mudcat - that German musicians use two completely different words. The old stuff, which doesn't change and doesn't get added to (unless someone collects a new old song) is das Volkslied; the new stuff is das Folksong. Make what you will of that!