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Okay, this might be a long post, but please bare with me.
Our church as a Maas-Rowe carrilon. To anybody who doesn't know what this is, basically, it's a jukebox on a timer that plays music through an outdoor loudspeaker at programmed times. You can program this machine to play one or as many songs as you want and when it is done, will shut itself off and wait for the next time the timer tells the program to operate. It counts the songs played by listening to an almost inaudible buzz after each song. When it hears this buzz, (probably about 5K hertz) it counts that as one song. THE BUZZ IS IMPORTANT FOR THIS MACHINE TO COUNT, and without it, will not work. This instrument is about 20 years old and the music is stored on 8- track tapes and is played with a rack mounted 8 track player. While it originally came with about 12-15 tapes, they are now all dragging and are wore out. (Yes, the head has been cleaned and it has a good belt) Maas-Rowe does not make any more 8 tracks because they want you to upgrade your machine to CDs, at a cost of $8K to $15K. With that info being stated, can anybody here point me to a rack mounted (not a necessity) CD player that has some sort of triggering device to play? I plan on recording the 5K buzz after each song on the recordable CDs so that the machine can still function as it does now. And if need be, I'll make a 555 timer circuit to start the player each time, but I'm just curious if there is a CD player already on the market that is a little more plug-and-playish that I can use. All advice is welcome. TIA. |
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