As the Orchestra has developed, it has grown into a large network of musicians, who come together in different combinations for different occasions. Although the name "orchestra" was deliberately chosen to suggest the size and diversity of instruments involved, in many ways the USFO is an "anti-orchestra"; it operates as a loosely coordinated network of creative individuals, rather than in the tightly structured and hierarchical manner of a classical orchestra, and founder member John Trotter is scornful of the 'orchestralisation' of traditional music that has become common in commercialised recordings.