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Photos: Pianos and protest in Ukraine

February 10, 2014 11:39AM ET

Keyboard music has been a regular presence at the protests in Kiev

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Kiev protest piano
A Ukrainian protester plays piano on a barricade in front of the riot police line, Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 as the standoff between protesters and government troops reaches its third month. Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA
Kiev protest piano
Ruslana Lyzhychko, a Ukrainian singer and winner of Eurovision 2004 contest speaks to policemen as she plays the piano on the barricade. Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA
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The piano played Monday was set upon a crude stage atop a burned out bus. Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images
Kiev protest piano
Monday was not the first time pianos have made an appearance at the protest. As far back as December, this piano, adorned with the logo of the European Union, the focus of the portesters’ efforts, was set up outside Kiev’s City Hall. Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images
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A man plays yet another piano (painted the colors of the Ukrainian flag) outside the tent camp on Feb. 3, 2014. David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters
Kiev protest piano
Pianos have appeared at anti-government protests in other cities as well. Here, a boy plays while people sing Ukrainian songs in Donetsk on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014. Alexander Khudoplety/AFP/Getty Images
Kiev protest piano
This masked man has been playing regularly for the protesters. Here, he plays to an audience of anti-government protesters in Kiev’s City Hall, which is occupied by opposition forces. Thomas Peter/Reuters
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An overview of the piano on the barricades Monday. Glab Garanich/Reuters