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The piano on which John Lennon composed "Imagine," his famous ode to peace and healing, is on a yearlong magical mystery tour of the U.S. with a macabre twist.

The nutmeg-colored Steinway upright, believed to have been in Mr. Lennon's country home in Ascot, England, is crisscrossing the country to show up at some of the nation's most horrific sites of violence, death and destruction.

Wall Street Journal: "Why Piano Owned by John Lennon Is Touring America" (via Eric Danton's Sound Check). I think that calling the tour "macabre" misses the point somewhat.

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