Hello everybody,  At first, excuse me for my English; I'm French from
Normandy (remember June 1944!).

I have built an organ with 32 wood pipes and electric blower; the chest
and bellows [pneumatics] are traditional.  I made a MIDI controller
using an 8051 micro-controller, and an old PC in a nice wood box gives
the MIDI files.  All this stuff is okay and works very well.  I'm proud
of this!

Now I want to improve it.  I would like to do an automatic trumpet on
it.  The electronic interface to command the keys is done, but I need
some ideas to control the pressure, like an artificial mouth.  All
comments or Internet links are welcome.

Thanks a lot

Patrice Rabby
524 route d'anxtot
76210 Parc d'anxtot
France

 [ Whew!  A mechanical artificial mouth (and lips!) for the trumpet --
 [ that's a challenge!  Could the diaphragm exciter of an automobile
 [ Italian air horn be adapted?  Or maybe one could use the "Honecker
 [ Horn", a sort of trumpet with vibrating reeds popular in Europe
 [ in the 1970s.  I guess it was sold for making noise at New Year's
 [ parties, but when Erich Honecker, the boss of Communist East Germany,
 [ spoke in public, it was frequently heard in chorus !  ;-)
 [ -- Robbie