Because it was never the same question. His target was a repertoire — the urban popular art-song of the cafés, composed "practically without exception, by Hungarians of the upper middle class" — not a people. Roma professionals were the ordinary village instrumentalists of that region: hired for weddings, christenings and weekend dances, playing for Romanian-speaking and Hungarian-speaking villages alike. If you want to record village dance music, you record them. Kodály put it most bluntly in 1937: "…the people dance to it, they are not used to singing or playing this music. Therefore, the only source of this repertoire is the Gypsy musicians." And the Bartók Archives record it in exactly that split form — the tune's ethnicity "Romanian", the performer "Gypsy", two separate fields.