Steuart Goodwin was born in Riverside, California in 1942. His formal musical training began in the fourth grade with cornet lessons. He graduated from the University of Redlands in 1964 with a Bachelor of music degree in composition. Fascinated from early childhood with the sounds, and mechanism of pipe organs, he obtained a Fulbright Grant with the endorsement of E. Power Biggs in 1964 for a year of studying organ building in the Netherlands. In 1968 he started his own business in Redlands, California. Over the years Goodwin Pipe Organs has built six  new organs, rebuilt four old Tracker organs, and a number of mostly new organs incorporating some used materials.

He has worked for the Flentrop Orgelbouw of Zaandam, the Netherlands, Rosales Organ builders Inc. of Los Angeles, and Schoenstein & Co. of San Francisco. In recent years he has become increasingly known as a design consultant and tonal finisher. He has a special affinity for organs of the Romantic, and American Classic styles, and has worked on a number of prominent E.M. Skinner, and Aeolian-Skinner organs—most notably those in the Old South Church in Boston and the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City.

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