Oh wow. Just discovered the thread and can't properly read on galaxy tab and at work. As an infant steampunker and toddling folker I love the idea of blending my 2 most keen intersts.

Google Thomas Truax for look at some weird steam musical instrument inventions. Listen to Professor Elemental, Abney Park, Ghost in the Static and others for some other ideas of the different ideas that steampunk music takes.

I am in the market for a working gramophone with horn.