Only a battered piano and a fur piece spread on a divan recall old Russia.

Then Mr. Harnick was inspired by the memory of a bronze sculpture of a battered piano, which gave the composer a perfect opportunity for text painting.

One, a pale, skeletal, lank-haired woman, had brought a battered upright piano on wheels and was pounding out bad Chopin to a derisively grinning audience of taxi drivers.

She started to walk to a window, then stopped by a battered old piano.

She was the last to sign up, and stage fright nearly grounded her rendition of "Rocket to the Moon," played on the Colton School's battered upright piano.

Everyone's first thought, as we sweated over our battered old pianos, was whether Donny would be pleased.

A battered upright piano already presides over the room Mr. Rodriguez sees as a library and recreation room.

But the homey, slightly disheveled space, with its battered upright piano and political posters, has just the right gemutlich quality for Ms. Goldberg's zany tap.

A Scriabin score perched above the keyboard of a battered piano.

The interior has been cobbled together in retro style, with wooden floors, 1970s orange-flowered wallpaper, sofas and armchairs, chintzy lampshades and a battered piano.