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This video about being a classical musician will make you shout ‘THIS IS ME’

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People are using trombones to pretend that they are massive cars and it’s hilarious

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Weirdly impressive: naked ballet dancers have their areas covered by drones

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Watch an insanely virtuosic piano improvisation from the pianist’s POV

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Professional double bassists can't work out if *that* Flight of the Bumblebee video is fake

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We asked André Rieu to give his fans some video dedications. Did he pick you?

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This poor kid perfectly sums up the complete terror of learning your scales

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The John Lewis Christmas advert soundtracked by Ligeti is genuinely unsettling

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Watch this singer majestically fail at performing while ice-skating