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Piano cars: 10 pictures of amazing driving/playing machines
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.
