Nevertheless, Wyman's work was and is appreciated by various individuals. The Australian composer-pianist Percy Grainger, who had a strong interest in folk music and did field work on folk songs himself, performed the Wyman-Brockway settings in public, and noted a kind of emotional connection to the published volumes: he performed the songs in "Lonesome Tunes" at home with his mother (taking the vocal part on a saxophone or sarrusophone), and said of the book after her death, "in other ways, also, a most sacred relic to me".