My friend Chris has been bugging me to post some images of my home brewed Victorian / SteamPunk inspired modular. So here goes.
It’s far from complete. Some modules are not shown and others are unfinished. Enjoy!
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Cool, love the manual typerwriter keys on the keyboard and the gingerbread.
THAT IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS I’VE EVER SEEN 
did you just re-house already built modules or was it completely from scratch?
This is super cool looking.
I love the knobs used for the envelope section.
Thanks for sharing.
Simply smashing, good sir! Most impeccable job with the detail! I congratulate you on a job well done, indeed! 
Some of it is Paia 9700 series kits and quite a bit of the PC board layout is from Yves Usson (www.yusynth.net), but all the remainer is my own design. The front panels are actually black PC boards etched with the graphics. The little silver decorations in to corners of the panels is actually solder flowed over the areas. The panels are pretty flexible, so I have to strengthen them with a piece of aluminum angle, which also serves to mount the circuitry.
…and now for the keyboard. Not the keyboard - you already have the keyboard. I mean the keyboard. You’ll need a keyboard.
And of course, and nice, big ribbon!!
Hey - are those big long keyboards for the Modulars still available from MOOG?
It would be cool if you could dummy up a small boiler, with steam lines connecting it to the synth!
Very nice!
it would have to blow out steam every time a note is pressed… 
A Steam Calliope Synth! 
Thanks. Keep the ideas coming…
I’m giving away surprizes here, but it’s already planned to “cap” to top cabinet with a really cool 19th century calliope with translucent “pipes” with steam and lights from the bottom.
I just need to figure out how to do the “steam” effect safely and cleanly. Anyone out there into stagecraft or film FX?
Edit: You could buy a small fog machine at Guitar Center.
+1 on the fog machine bit.
Maybe look into what model railroaders do? Somewhere between that and a fog machine for a club is the right size.
Model railroaders use a heating element and 3 in 1 oil. At least that’s how my dad’s toy train worked when he was growing up. A setup like that could prove to be a disaster with a synth if not done right. Done correctly, it could be incredibly awesome! A bit smelly, perhaps, but awesome! Great idea Bryan! 
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I do know that fog machines can leave a real messy film on things. If fog machine is the way I go (likely) then I need to make the assembly easily serviceable and cleanable.
(I just need to figure out how to do the “steam” effect safely and cleanly.)
AFAIK anything you might use (stage fog, dry ice) leaves SOME kind of residue,
your machine is so nice I’d steer clear.
What about using actual steam? Hot plate and tea kettle, have some piping coming from the kettle spout to lead on top of the synth or where ever you want steam to come from. Sure it will be incredibly hot and dangerous, but that’s why its steam**punk**. Or you could use dry ice. But I don’t know how readily available that is.
I think most grocery stores have it.
You have to heat the water the dry ice is in or it will quit vaporizing. You can get small 12VDC smoke generator for trains sets.
Big smoke
http://www.harbormodels.com/site08/main_pages/smoker.htm
Tiny mounting, you could use several.
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