Virgil Lay, founder of S.I.T. Guitar Strings, dead at 82 (player, good)

[newmex]

Owner of Lay's Guitar Repair in Akron Ohio.

Good article of a local boy known internationally.

Ohio.com - Virgil Lay, Akron guitar-string maker, dies at 82 (http://www.ohio.com/news/41161537.html - broken link)

[thriftylefty]

These guys are truly the unsung heroes of the music business .I met many of them while I was in sales. I would see their shops filled with instuments from those ranging well into the thousands to an off the rack toy some kid brought in. they treated them all with care. They were craftsmen, machinest, inventors , surgeons, conversationalist (if you stayed and talked while they worked on your instrument you got a discount) and great players