Thiel Hatt

[Larry Banks]

Some of you may know Thiel Hatt. He was a great steel player. He passed away this past week.

Larry Banks

[Mike Neer]

Rest in peace, Thiel. He was a valued member of this community. He built some really cool instruments, including this one.

[Brandon Patterson]

Thiel will surely be missed. He played in the same band as my dad for many years here in TN before they moved back to Utah. He was a great player and seemed to know how to fix about anything mechanical. He was fun to be around and always saying the funniest things. A year or so before he passed, he sold his main guitar a beautiful Zum to another of his former bandmates here in TN and a friend of our family. I don't think he really plays much steel, but he wanted to bring it home because of how much he cared for Thiel.

[Royace Buehrlen]

So sad to hear about Thiel, such a nice person. He sold me his Dekley Universal 12 and sent me follow up info which was so nice of him and to top that off he asked me if I could use a capo for it. I hadn't seen one before, he said he would send it to me at no charge and he did. I wish I could have met him, he did tell me that he was building the beautiful resonator instrument. R.I.P. my friend, Thiel Hatt!