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Default Are there any CD players with a trigger input?

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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