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Confusing question. It mixes both the invention of "mechanical blowing" and electric key action. To answer the question directly: Robert Hope - Jones. However, he invented neither electric action or mechanical blowing. The latter was developed in the 19th century when steam engines, internal combustion engines and water motors were fitted to the feeder bellows of organs. Later fan and impeller type blowers were developed, driven by the aforementioned devices (with the exception of water motors) and eventually electric motors. Electric key action allows the console (and thereby the keyboards) to be placed at a distance from the main body of the instrument, the electrical signals being carried by a cable. The invention of electric action pre-dates Hope Jones but these early mechanisms were not reliable. Hope - Jones brought it to a high state of perfection.

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