Have you ever noticed that when people become church musicians, they put on what seems to be our standard-issue, church-musician mask? The church-musician mask makes a church orchestra appear to contain twenty copies of the same person. This masked musician is suave and friendly:

he or she has a great sense of humor, usually with a sarcastic bent
he pokes fun at his unique ability to play out of tune, no matter how skillful he actually is
he threatens to go on strike when having to play ...