First of all Sharp collected songs in very few parts of the UK. He concentrated on one area, Somerset. He did a little collecting in other parts but his efforts in most other counties concerned dance, and why should he do anything that he didn't want to? Nobody was financing him or telling him what to do. Like all of the others he was an amateur, self-motivated, self-financed and had no remit to go anywhere else. This could be lamented, but I'm happy that he concentrated on one small area, as if he had tried to do a Broadwood he would have spread himself thin. Apart from that they were all pioneers and learning as they went along. He also did marvellous work in America and I'm sure none of us would begrudge that.