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- ↑ "California Death Records" Archived 7 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine 27 November 2010
- ↑ "Soul of Tone: Celebrating 60 Years of Fender Amps" Tom Wheeler, 2007, Hal Leonard, ISBN 0634056131 [ page needed ]
- ↑ "Fender: The Inside Story" Forrest White, 1994,Hal Leonard, Page 89, ISBN 0-87930-309-3
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