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Greetings from the Dutch. You wrote at the beginning of this year Alexandre-Joseph Artot. You named his mother, as family of Adam and Ries. That's not correct. At the birthcerticicate his mum is named Jeanne Catherine Borremans. She is thus family of Charles, Joseph and Jean-Baptiste Borremans, all three were musicians. You can find it here. Ceescamel ( talk) 12:59, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

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A tag has been placed on Category:Moveable holidays missing dates requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Hello there, I'm currently working on expanding the article Gourd mouth organ as a part of my university unit. I can see that you are an expert in music and I just significantly expanded the contents in Gourd mouth organ. Can you please reassess the article's quality class under WikiProject Musical Instruments? Any advice and suggestions are very welcome! Thank you very much! And hope you have a lovely day. Ryssian ( talk) 13:13, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

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