Detuned

Starting at $68,000, the XF Supercharged comes with the same 5. 0-liter supercharged V8 as the XFR, albeit "detuned" down to 470 hp and 424 lb-ft of torque. ❋ Jonny Lieberman (2010)

Iommi's lack of fingertips led to other crucial mutations in his guitar playing – namely the use of thinner, detuned strings. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Some years ago she encountered an out-of-tune calliope on a riverboat in New Orleans and, as she describes, became fascinated with old mechanical instruments, and the odd, detuned sounds that they produce as they deteriorate. ❋ Rodney Punt (2010)

These machines -- calliopes, nickelodeons, and German jahrmarkt organs -- were visually juxtaposed in fast crosscuts, their sounds mixed with those of the more conventional violin, piano, accordion and banjo, all of them deconstructed via musical sampler that detuned, altered, and arranged the rhythmic whimsy into an "imaginary orchestra" soundtrack. ❋ Rodney Punt (2010)

There is something subtly contrary about this band: their most enigmatic song bears the name Warpaint, while their least-composed song – which opens in a fury of shouted vocals and uncoils in a meandering jam of slowly detuned guitars – is called Composure. ❋ Maddy Costa (2010)

Audi The car's engine, which punches out a nice 100 hp per liter (525 hp at 8,000 rpm) and 391 pound-feet of torque, is a slightly detuned version of the engine in the Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Was I any less absurd before, she asked, the hissing breaking up her voice like static on a detuned radio. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The sexual body is construed as an instrument of infinite variety, to be tuned or detuned according to the finesse you bring to it. ❋ ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH (2010)

Agalloch paint a dark metal masterpiece full of dense, detuned, medieval melodies. ❋ Shawn Amos (2010)

'He just detuned one of my strings,' says the bassist. ❋ Unknown (2010)

jesus [paul] [will you] stop singing please, your detuning [my head]! ❋ Jim Venner (2004)

"...He's like a detuned Radio..." [Thom] "The colors [detone] with your face." "The singer detones and almost turns me crazy." "I'm detuning with the group." "[Lucas] can play guitar, but when he's singing is a real detuner." ❋ GoodByeFish (2007)