Untuned

Hiatt's eponymous Gibson dreadnought buzzed and untuned itself throughout the two-hour performance, which added a rock-and-roll edge to the unplugged affair. ❋ Dave McKenna (2011)

Until you can show me, in the HIR text, where government buys our private insurance or forces doctors and nurses to work for the government I assume you havent read the text of the bill and are just another untuned piano playing a lobbyist script. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Considerable skill was required to do this, however, and an untuned Model 70 trigger was a horror. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Drunken college students strum untuned strings and shout incoherent lyrics into flames of illegal campfires. ❋ Paula Ray (2010)

Or of the serenades sung with a guitar which now lies mute, untuned. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A cycle of five settings of extracts from The Tempest, it clothes the disarmingly tonal vocal lines in shimmering textures from trios of flutes and cellos, along with three percussionists playing a variety of tuned and untuned wooden and metallic instruments. ❋ Andrew Clements (2010)

In "Music for Midsummer's Eve," time is an "untuned harmonium/That Muzaks our nights and days." ❋ Rus Bowden (2009)

The noise sounds like the white noise background of an untuned radio. ❋ Doyle (2009)

The bells of street corner Santa Clauses, the familiar Christmas records on the phonograph, the sweet, untuned voices of Christmas carolers. ❋ Richard Paul Evans (2009)

"I'm Waiting For the Man," a jumpy tune about trying to score drugs, unravels in a jumble of pounding keyboard and untuned guitar. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The untuned guitar added a bizarre effect to the drum and bass, sounding more like avant-garde, new age, African noise than music. ❋ Tommy Chong (2008)

Fub says: ... the screeching of untuned fiddles, ... ❋ Unknown (2007)

Even in paradigmatic classical symphonic works there is untuned percussion, and electronic works may consist entirely of white noise. ❋ Kania, Andrew (2007)

It robs the air of sweet silence, it substitutes for the gentle concord of stillness the wailings of the so-called ‘blues singer,’ the whinings of foggy saxophones, the screeching of untuned fiddles, the blasts of head-splitting horns, and the battering of earshattering drums. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I think hearing this monstrosity untuned would be hilariously orsum! ❋ Unknown (2005)

If there was a sound effect for the frustration he has caused me on THIS DAY ALONE, it would be the sound of several hundred hyenas being beaten with hammers as hyperactive toddlers ran back and forth upon the keyboard of an untuned piano. ❋ Bluemeany (2005)