The final step is to add some controls so you can use your hand and fingers to control the skeleton hand. Take a rectangle of cardboard about 4cm wide. Bend the cardboard to make it flexible then ...

What’s believed to be Bach’s skeleton, photographed in 1895 by ... “We cannot judge exactly how relevant the span of the hand is for the art of a musician,” Otte says.

Perkins has been constructing the skeleton for 25 days, and he mounted the the arms and hands onto his house on Oct. 10. His display will be completed when he adds the skeleton's skull breaking ...