Do you remember the scene when the H. Hunter character is waiting on the beach with her daughter? The piano is crated. Yet, the Hunter character removes a piece of wood and plays on whatever keys she can. In this scene she has to speak/play her sensual music. Later on, after the Keitel character makes his proposition, he crawls under her dress while she plays. He finds a hole in her stocking. He sticks his finger into the hole and touches her ivory white skin, while she tickles the ivories. Thus, the metaphor completes itself and the connection is further established between them. She played a little on the beach, he played a little on her. Dennis Ross University of Miami