Sharp relied upon making money from his collections and arranging them for piano to be played in schools ,hardly an amateur.he was not an amateur, which was one reason he concentrated on areas close tio him , because the less distance he had to travel the less financial expense and more carrots and potatoes for his sunday dinner.
Cecil was vegetarian, he was hardly likely to go to collect bullfighting.
So Karpeles collected songs from phil tanner, A tad irrelevant, presumably Sharp did not go to Wales partly because it cost him too much, since he had to finance the trips himself