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- ↑ Michelle Poland Devlin, DMA, The Contributions of Tommy Pederson (1920-1998) to Trombone Performance and Literature in the Twentieth Century Archived 2017-05-10 at the Wayback Machine , Doctoral Dissertation, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (2007).
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