Steampunk theremin: the making

Building a Steampunk theremin is a tough challenge, but I could count on some friends' help both for design and manual help. Thanks to Barbara for the styling and to Sergio for woodworking, wiring, plumbing...

We started from a base concept and a few parts:

 

Then we began the work by conditioning a Jeroboam wine bottle's wooden box:

Then uhm, you have to choose the parts's placement.

On the workbench, after drilling, before elctrical wirings...