George sell

Jennifer Hughes · Post by **Jennifer Hughes** » 21 Sep 2014 5:15 am

For those of you who knew George sell( GES), who made steel guitars, passed last night.

after a long illness. Any questions, I can b reached at jhughes50880@comcast.net.

Herb Steiner · Post by **Herb Steiner** » 21 Sep 2014 7:37 am

Sad to hear it. George is the man demonstrating how to turn a steel guitar over in the Winston/Keith book. He was a pioneer.

Jon Light · Post by **Jon Light** » 21 Sep 2014 7:44 am

Prompted by your post, Jennifer, I did some Forum and some Google searching and came up with a bunch of stuff that made me smile.
I am sorry for your family's loss.
But I congratulate you and your family for being able to enjoy a strong legacy.

Jennifer Hughes · Post by **Jennifer Hughes** » 21 Sep 2014 8:15 am

He will surely be missed. I loved hearing his stories and all about the people he met

Scott Duckworth · Post by **Scott Duckworth** » 22 Sep 2014 2:58 am

Jennifer, sorry for you loss. We'll be praying for you.

BTW folks, in other posts, Jennifer has indicated she would like to get one of George's guitars.

Jennifer Hughes · Post by **Jennifer Hughes** » 22 Sep 2014 3:08 am

Thank you so much. It's tough on me. I am definitely trying to get one of his guitars. I want something that reminds me of him. He loved his steel guitars and I want my boys to see what he used to make and how great he was. Thank u so much

Tommy Detamore · Post by **Tommy Detamore** » 22 Sep 2014 7:53 am

Sorry to hear this. When I met first Josh Dubin in Austin 1978 he was playing a GES steel. It sure sounded great to me. Later when doing dates in Pennsylvania I got to know some local steelers and George's name came up often. He was well admired in that neck of the woods for sure.

Ray Nash · Post by **Ray Nash** » 24 Sep 2014 4:14 pm

Jennifer it was sad to hear of your grandfather's passing my condolences to you and your family.

George was highly respected in the Steel Guitar community. He built some of the finest Steel Guitars in the world. The craftmanship was just incredible, it could be said he was a real perfectionest building Steel Guitars.

There are so many good things that could be said about George like he didn't take advantage of people when repairing or building steel guitars and one of the nicest people you would ever want to meet.

And Oh! the sense of humor he had and the stories he could tell lol!

I will definitley miss him he was a life long friend.

Jennifer Hughes · Post by **Jennifer Hughes** » 24 Sep 2014 5:11 pm

You are so sweet. My pop pop always talked about you. Mayb one day I will get to meet you. My husband and I would love it.