Hallo listers,

We have a problem: Our church build in 1300's has a Carillon ( Bells, Glockenspiel) of 16
bells that used to play every hour on the hour a hymn for three minutes.

Every bell has an solenoid actuator that strikes the bell; this mechanical component
seems to be o.k..

The problem seems to be in the old fashioned hole card driver, which we would like to
replace with an electronic one. Seems to me if one can buy a phone with thousands of
songs :-) we should be able to programm a basic computer to do the job. the problem
would be the interface between the computer and the current drawing solenoids.

Any of the shelf componends available or any advice how we could go about it?

Thank you very much , H. Rode