1.   A battered old guitar was his most treasured possession.

2.   He played a battered guitar, then talked of life.

3.   Shoppers near the crowded silk market are serenaded by a blind street musician banging out love songs from Taiwan on a battered guitar.

4.   The onetime students, some of whom count battered guitars among their only possessions, have composed four cassettes worth of songs about democracy, patriotism and suffering.