Most of the people playing these kinds of gigs are student members of traditional Chinese music clubs at universities. Not many are actually music majors. "If you play a lot of funerals, you get too used to moody melodies, which wrecks your musical sensibility," explains Chang.
打這種工的，以各大學國樂社同學居多，音樂專業科系學生反而不多，原因之一是「喪禮場合跑多了，會逐漸習慣哀怨的曲調，導致音樂性被扭曲破壞，」張凱翔說。