For Hu Nai-yuan, an outstanding violinist steeped in classical Western music and first-prize winner of the Queen Elizabeth competition, "the indigenous peoples of Taiwan" was just a term in the textbooks. His only impression was, "I had heard Tang Lan-hua was an aborigine."
而對胡乃元這位自小浸淫在西方古典音樂世界，曾經榮獲伊莉沙白皇后國際大賽首獎的傑出小提琴家來說，「台灣原住民」本是個教科書的名詞；僅有的印象是，「聽說湯蘭花是山地人」。