Peter Kennedy was a major collector,Without his collected work,the traditional music scene would be a poorer place.[I make no apologies for his selling of your tape,]
Cecil Sharp was also a full time collector,he treated his sources well,.
To get his songs published he had to alter some of the texts.
what I am asking is, would Cecil Sharp have been under financial pressure from a publisher to collect certain kinds of songs rather than others,because the publisher might say there is a market for sea songs,or love songs,could this influence ,what a full time collector decides to collect?.
Jim, in my experience of life,Common sense is not very common.,maybe collectors have more of it than the general public.