Database Manager on September 24th, 2016:
Identified through online information from Don Frank Hermanson. -- This is a rebuild and relocation of an existing organ.
<br>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. <br>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.