Welcome to the Schlueter Family

Our staff has a gifted team of the organ builders and support personnel to serve you in your music needs. The collective experience of our staff members spans a period of over 200 years of organ building.

This team includes but is not limited to:

· The members of the Schlueter Family
· Mr. Howard Weaver, Vice-President of Organ Design and Engineering
· Mr. John Tanner, Vice-President of Production
· Mr. David Kocsis, Program Manager
· Mr. Marc Conley, Supervisor of Production
· Mr. Bud Taylor, Assistant Supervisor of Production
· Mr. Robert Black, Supervisor of Organ CAD/CAM
· Mr. Mike Norris, Foreman of Consoles, Casework and Cabinetry
· Mr. Othel Liles, Senior Organ Electrician
· Mr. Mike Ray, Electronics Technician
· Mr. David Crawford Stills, Organ Design Consultant
· Mr. Bob Weaver, Tuning and Service Specialist
· Our Professional Shop Staff
· Our Professional Office Staff
· Our Service Staff

Mr. Arthur Schlueter, Jr. - President

Art Schlueter is founder, President, and CEO of our companies. A native of south Florida, he has been interested in pipe organs since his childhood. He began studying about the pipe organ and working with organ builders from an early age. During school and college days, he worked under the supervision of an English organ builder living in Florida. After earning his academic degrees and following a career in higher education administration, Art began work in Georgia in 1973, representing one of America’s largest pipe organ builders. His professional activities have always included the full range of organ selling, building, and installation.

Art is a member of the Atlanta chapter of the American Guild of Organists, the American Institute of Organ Builders, The Organ Historical Society, and the International Society of Organ Builders. He serves on Panel 12 of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) for the National Electrical Code as a representative for the AIO and APOBA. His business has continued to expand, now including the tuning and maintenance of over 160 organs in six states, and a growing number of re-building and enlarging contracts each year. Most recently, he has incorporated A. E. Schlueter Pipe Organ Company to reflect more accurately the company’s building of new organs.

Mr. Arthur Schlueter, III - Vice President

Arthur serves as Vice-President of Schlueter Pipe Organ Company. The oldest of Art’s children, Arthur’s interest in the organ was spawned at an early age. He has worked in the organ industry since childhood and continued through high school and college. His initial studies were completed at the local community college so that he could continue to work with the company in a part time capacity. He is a graduate from Mercer University with a degree in Marketing. Arthur has been active with the company full time since 1990. He has been responsible for the design of several instruments including the recently completed pipe organ at Bethel United Methodist Church of Charleston, South Carolina.

Mr. Howard W. Weaver - VP, Organ Design and Engineering

Mr. Howard W. Weaver serves as Vice-President of Organ Design and Engineering. He began his career in organ building at age seventeen as an apprentice in the engineering department of M. P. Möller Organ Company of Hagerstown, Maryland. He served in various capacities such as Director of Engineering, Director of Operations, Sales Manager, and ultimately as Vice President of Design and Product Management.

Over the years, Mr. Weaver was involved in many important projects at Möller. He personally designed the casework and supervised the engineering, manufacture, and installation of the instrument at Calvary Church in Charlotte, NC, the largest all new organ ever built and thirteenth largest playable organ in the world. Other major organs over the years were the instruments at Mary Our Queen, Baltimore, MD; St. Paul the Apostle, New York City; Cathedral of St. Paul, Birmingham, AL; National City Christian Church, Washington, DC; First Presbyterian Church, Midland, TX; and Spring Hill Presbyterian Church, Mobile, AL. Other organ projects include the organs at the Air Force and Naval Academies. Over his career he has been involved in approximately two thousand five hundred (2,500) organ installations.

Mr. Weaver has had the opportunity to extensively study English and European organ building and case design on-site. He is welcome in the organ factories in these countries where he maintains friendships with many fine organ builders. He is a distinguished member on the International Society of Organ Builders and he has been involved in operational courses at Penn State University, American Management Association in Washington, DC, and the Maryland Center for Quality & Productivity at the University of Maryland.

Mr. David Crawford Stills - Organ Design Consultant

David C. Stills, a leading Atlanta organist, is a graduate of Morehouse College and Atlanta University. He was the protégé of the late Dr. Willis L. James, renowned musicologist, composer, and folklorist. He has studied organ with Dr. Joyce Johnson, professor of organ at Spellman College; Dr. Hampton Barker, Atlanta; Dr. Ronald C. Rice, Cathedral of Saint Matthew, Dallas; and Professor Hans Zimmerman, Munich, Germany.

Mr. Stills has concertized throughout the United States and Europe and has played at the Washington Cathedral, and at the Riverside Church. In 1974 the United States Department of State sponsored him in a goodwill tour. The tour included Germany, France, and Italy.

Mr. Stills, a past Dean of the Atlanta Chapter AGO, is minister of music at Warren Memorial United Methodist Church, Atlanta, GA. He has served as Adjunct Professor of Organ at Georgia State University, Associate Organist-Choirmaster at The Episcopal Cathedral of Saint Philip, Atlanta; and has taught in the Atlanta Public School System. He was the organist for the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and was Director of Music at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. He is listed in Notable Americans, Personalities of the South, and Dictionary of International Biography. Mr. Stills has recently published a work, "Chester," written for the dedication of our new instrument built for the Chester Presbyterian Church.

Meet the Office Staff

Mrs. Shan Bowen - Office Manager

Mr. Bob Parris - Executive Assistant

Meet the Production Professionals

Mr. John Tanner - Vice President of Production, AIO

Mr. Marc Conley - Supervisor of Production, AIO

Mr. Bud Taylor - Assistant Supervisor of Production, AIO

Mr. Robert Black - Supervisor of Organ CAD/CAM, AIO

Mr. Mike Norris - Foreman of Consoles, Casework, and Cabinetry

Mr. Othel Liles - Senior Organ Electrician, Emeritus

Meet the Tuning and Service Professionals

Mr. Bob Weaver