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Trade Regrets: Bill Tregoe

Christian Wissmuller by Christian Wissmuller
February 27, 2015
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Bill Tregoe passed away on February 25th. Throughout his 35-year career as a sales rep for CG Conn and later King Musical Instruments, Tregoe drove an estimated 1,300,000-plus miles.

As a trumpet student Bill took lessons at a Conn Music Store and later became a band director, serving schools mostly in Texas and Florida from 1949 until he was hired by Conn in 1962. 

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Click here for a segment from his 2009 NAMM Oral History interview, which covers the cars he used over the years to travel the country as a sales rep: https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/bill-tregoe

 

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