Another point, as Hsu Bor-nien mentions, is that there are big differences between someone like him, who picked up music in secondary school by playing in a marching band and came to an understanding of it largely on his own, and someone like his wife, the pianist Luo Mei-ya, who was immersed in formal musical training from an early age.
另一方面，徐伯年也發現，從國中時才開始在鼓號樂隊吹吹打打、無師自通地搞起音樂的他，和從小就在正規音樂環境裡長大的鋼琴家太太羅玫雅，有著極大的不同。