Midi interface to drive organ chimes for doorbell

[Cymbell]

Hello - Would anyone have a driver configuration or know of a system that would control a set of organ chimes?</p>

I
have a set of organ chimes (21 notes) hanging in my front stairwell.
They are on a new Peterson electric action. </p>

Eventually they will be hooked up to my home pipe organ which will have solid state. </p>

I am interested in finding a solution to also have these chimes ring a pattern or pattern(s) when the front doorbell is pushed. </p>

I don't have a lot of knowledge in building an electric control system but could wire something that was configured with directions. </p>

Someone also suggested adding a clock mechanism so it would ring the hours.</p>

Any suggestions?</p>

Thank you</p>

[FrenchHorn8]

Re: Midi interface to drive organ chimes for doorbell

Welcome, Cymbell!

I'd suggest a PIC16f877 microcontroller with darlington arrays connected to the pins you plan to use. The 16f877 has enough pins that you could assign a pin to each note. Then you could have a pin as an input that is turned on when the doorbell button is pressed. That's probably your cheapest and easiest option. It would cost you probably less than $25 for the parts. I could write the program and program the microcontroller for you so you wouldn't have to invest in a programmer or programming software. Or, if you'd like I could just build the whole thing for you.

-Trevor