George E. Babb
1959

Originally Henry Pilcher's Sons (Opus 1334, 1926)

First Evangelical Lutheran Church

2415 Avenue G at 25th Street
Galveston, TX, US

17 Ranks

Instrument ID: 59466 ● Builder ID: 253 ● Location ID: 3675

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Builder: Unknown

Position: Console in Fixed Position, Right

Design: Traditional With Roll Top

Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)

Features:

2 Manuals Electrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Thumb Piston(s)✓ Sforzando Toe Piston(s)

Stop Layout: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual

Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)

Combination Action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical

Control System: Unknown or N/A

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This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location

Database Manager on September 24th, 2016:

Identified through online information from Don Frank Hermanson. -- This is a rebuild and relocation of an existing organ.

I am Don Hermanson, Organist-Choirmaster at First Lutheran/Galveston (since Jan 1990). The move, installation and improvements were done by a local Houston technician: the late George Babb, who was the area Schantz representative at the time. Mr. Babb did away with the original Pilcher console, and installed a Schantz two manual console, placed permanently at the rear of the right side transept chapel. He also added three ranks: Great 4' Octave, Great/Pedal 16/8/5 1/3/4/2 2/3/2 Gemshorn, Swell/Pedal 8' Trumpet.
This organ ceased to exist after the 2008 Hurricane Ike, eventually replaced by our A. E. Schlueter organ in 2014. All 17 ranks were reused in the new organ.

Related Instrument Entries: Henry Pilcher's Sons (Opus 1334, 1926) , A. E. Schlueter Pipe Organ Company (2014)