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    Piano cars: 10 pictures of amazing driving/playing machines

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    What do you get when you wrestle a piano into a car? Piano cars! Here's how two very beautiful bits of engineering collide to create something stunning. If you've got a favourite piece of driving music, listen to Drive with John Brunning every day at 5pm this week.

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      1. Pop the hood

      Something tells us this car wouldn't be able to drive far... but who cares when it sounds that good?

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      2. Rolls Royce piano

      Rolls Royce make ostentatious cars, so you'd expect their piano to follow suit. And it does. Gloriously so.

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      3. Vast improvement

      We can't think of anything better to do with a boring 2-door banger than shove a piano in the side of it.

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      4. Helsinki piano car

      A piano car on display at the American Car Show in Helsinki.

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      5. Bare bones

      This one actually looks like it's got a chance of driving somewhere, no matter how pretty the piano is.

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      6. The NY Phil play cars

      Alan Gilbert, chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic leads a performance of the composition 'Power' by Finnish composer and pianist Marcus Lindberg by using car parts as musical instruments at the Volkswagen Phaeton factory in 2014.

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      7. Wartime piano car

      Soldiers on the Eastern Front in in 1943 ride around on their very own musical vehicle.

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      8. Peugeot Piano

      Peugeot's Pleyel piano is an absolute stunner, as you might expect. Not very car-like, but we still approve.

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      9. Not quite a car

      Alright, so it's not exactly a Ferrari. But at least there's some entertainment for that long commute.

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      10. Disused cars make great pianos

      A piano now sits in the engine compartment of what used to be a Yugo automobile at the 1996 Los Angeles Auto Show.

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