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Beloved founder of the highly influential Midwestern band instrument shop Quinlan & Fabish, George Quinlan, Sr. passed away this week at the age of 90.Beloved founder of the highly influential Midwestern band instrument shop Quinlan & Fabish, George Quinlan, Sr. passed away this week at the age of 90. Quinlan, who was featured in a recent retrospective on the company [http://www.mmrmagazine.com/7020/archives/february-2013/the-quinlans/] when they won the 2013 Don Johnson Service Award, was a World War II veteran who founded the business in 1959 in Chicago. Quinlan and Fabish currently operates at seven locations and employs 125. NAMM president Joe Lamond told SBO’s sister publication, MMR, “George Quinlan, Sr. has spent his life serving others and is the perfect example of all that is right with our industry. It would probably be impossible to calculate the number of young people who had the opportunity to learn music because of his efforts, but I’d imagine it would be in the tens of thousands, if not more.”
http://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/george-quinlan-sr