Talk:Americus Backers

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[edit] My edits

This article has a lot of good information in it - all I want to do is organise it per Wikipedia's norms. I have tried to make it more closely conform with Wikipedia's Manual of Style. I have removed sections which talk about the author's personal experiences - this should not be done on articles to avoid self-references. It is assumed that an article will have many authors over many years. I have also standardised the heading titles, added categories and added a link to the German version of this article. Graham87 14:51, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Article author Guidewell begs a few questions

"I'm most grateful for the intervention of this Administrator. While I'm very happy to have my contribution conform to Wikipedia conventions, my main aim in broadcasting what I know about Americus Backers is to attract anyone who knows more (or different) information to come forward with it so that I can build a fuller picture of 'my old friend' Americus, whom I feel I know as well as many of my other contemporarties in the piano and music world.

"Since writing my piece, I have traced two futrher potential sources of information that I intend to pursue during the next few weeks. If they do materially add to the sum f knowledge about Americus Backers I will add to this Wikipedia article, but it may be that they only have some of the sketchy details I have accumulatged already.

Meanwhile, I'd like to open the following questions:

"Are there any more Backers instruments in the world outside the UK?"

"Would it be possible to trace records of birth and marriage (we have no record of whether Americus had a spouse or children or household staff in Jermyn Street) in Holland and in Saxony in the same way as we can in the UK through Parish Records?"

"Is there a musicologist out there (other than the Leigh family) with an interest in castrati who can write up Tenducci and she light on his relationship with Backers?"

"Who owned Backers pianos (since we still have number 21 there must have been quite a few owner), what music were they inspired to write and/or play and to whom - family, friends or public audience - did they play?"

Guidewell (talk) 11:45, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

This may or may not help, but take a look at some of the sources cited in piano pedals, an article I cleaned up yesterday. Just to clarify, I didn't perform any actions as an administrator. administrators only have the extra powers of blocking users, deleting and protecting pages, and a few other tools that help in cleaning up vandalism. Anyone, whether an admin or not, could have made any edit they liked to this article. The position of administrator, or adminship as it is known, is granted to people who have broad experience in Wikipedia - my request is at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Graham87, for instance. Graham87 13:51, 13 January 2008 (UTC)