Although it is said that a dislocation in the transmission of traditional music occurred in the late Qing and early Republican eras, still, most people cannot know--nor can deny either--how many of the vast number of musical records are still extant. There are so many representative traditional musical pieces; one of Lin Ku-fang's problems is how to establish a canon.
雖說傳統音樂在清末民初時面臨斷層，但一般人的無從知曉，卻不能否定它在歷史中仍存有數以千萬計樂曲的事實，有代表性的傳統樂曲數量太多，經典如何建立，這是林谷芳的困難之一。