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- ↑ interview in Historic Brass Society Newsletter, Issue 1, 2001
- ↑ "Home". Musicafiata.com. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
- ↑ "Diskographie". Musicafiata.com. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
- ↑ Bruce Haynes, A History of Performing Pitch: The Story of "A", 2002, p. 104, Scarecrow Press, ISBN 978-0810841857
