Tune up, play a few chords, they are all out-of-tune.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Strung] Reference

All those out-of-tune singers screaming their guts out!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intermission.] Reference

I used to wince at Big Brother's every out-of-tune note.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin]

It feels similarly out-of-tune when applied to The Spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Eisner's The Spirit: Movie Trailers - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games] Reference

He heard a moment of ugly laughter and an out-of-tune piano.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

The banjo player strummed a few out-of-tune bars and began to sing.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Say Nothing of the Dog]

Last night we slept in the interior of an enormous, out-of-tune kazoo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minor and not-so-minor indignities.] Reference

I was playing Gershwin on our slightly out-of-tune, formerly grand piano.    From Wordnik.com.  [Along Came a Spider]

Most of them will play for hours with cardboard boxes or our out-of-tune piano.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loving friends] Reference

I know how annoying it is to play with out-of-tune things, so I was happy to wait.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-08-01] Reference

Because they contain .... (eh, where're the drum-roll and out-of-tune fanfare lah?).    From Wordnik.com.  [Ways to Decimate the English Language Part II] Reference

Compositions for broken kazoos and snare drum orchestras; played on an out-of-tune sax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Casey Luskin: the new Wendell Bird? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

I noticed that one could hear out-of-tune notes played in a very fast run by a violinist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steven Chu - Autobiography] Reference

Taking the music industry example, I see a bunch of out-of-tune morons flailing on stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Authors and the Paradox of Desktop Publishing] Reference

The two rooms were crowded with shabby furniture and a seriously out-of-tune upright piano.    From Wordnik.com.  [Borrowed Finery, A Memoir]

With "Strings of Life," the band replaces crystalline synthesizers with out-of-tune guitars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Album review: The Dirtbombs, "Party Store"] Reference

The thing's voice was like a dozen bells ringing; bells just slightly out-of-tune with one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oathbound]

Beside him, a Neil Young look-alike hunches over in his seat as he lets his out-of-tune guitar wail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Torgovnick: Even Among a Sea of Cable Channels and the Explosion of YouTube, Public Access Remains Vital] Reference

Thank Heaven the Caddy's heater was efficient; there was nothing worse than a cold banjo for being out-of-tune.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music To My Sorrow]

Concertgoer Steve Handwerker says Berry gave an erratic, out-of-tune performance and had to be helped offstage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rock Legend Chuck Berry Collapses On Stage] Reference

"No," Lynn said, and the shuddering kept up, like out-of-tune notes quavering through metal frame and living bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Port Eternity]

Some smile when I explain the bandits could not drag our out-of-date couch and out-of-tune piano through the wreckage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crime may pay] Reference

A man who attended the Chicago concert said Berry gave an erratic, out-of-tune performance before he was helped offstage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chuck Berry Suffered From Exhaustion Before Chicago Show, Agent Says] Reference

Disturbing images of out-of-tune singers on our televisions could have a devastating effect on the morale of our citizens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanjaya Must Be Stopped] Reference

All tinkling out-of-tune piano from the next room and high falsetto vocals fill Chalk which has not a single rocker on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [You're not rid of me] Reference

What would the judges and the audience have thought, and said, had her voice been a creaky rasp, or an out-of-tune shriek?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dennis Palumbo: What if Susan Boyle Couldn't Sing?] Reference

Suddenly she rushed and opened a little, old, out-of-tune piano that was in the room, and began strumming on it and singing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Raw Youth] Reference

You know, we used the same old sort of slightly out-of-tune piano, and there were pots from the kitchen used for percussion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grizzly Bear: An Old 'House,' a New 'Friend'] Reference

I can honk out a few simple tunes on my horribly out-of-tune one-row (usually brought out at Christmas to play auld lang syne).    From Wordnik.com.  [Vivaldi - Performed on an Accordion » E-Mail] Reference

But what in the first part is an out-of-tune hymn, becomes, in the second part, a delicately awkward negotiation between the hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Been there, done that] Reference

After a few weeks, they began to let me play after dinner on the out-of-tune piano in the chapel room right down the hall from Francis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Dust] Reference

It bears the same significance when, according to a German folk tradition, the devil plays out-of-tune trombones on the death of witches.    From Wordnik.com.  [MUSIC AS A DEMONIC ART] Reference

Secretary Powell led a group of other American officials in a rousing, if somewhat out-of-tune, version of the Village People song "YMCA.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 2, 2004] Reference

Many students said residential college and Hendrie Hall pianos are out-of-tune.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yale Daily News - Latest Issue] Reference

So it's not like you hear the plinking of out-of-tune plastic toys interfering with the songs.    From Wordnik.com.  [PopMatters] Reference

I read his Landover novels and they were fun, but they always struck an out-of-tune chord with me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just Another Pretty Farce] Reference

His nasal and hopelessly out-of-tune wails during practice drive his roommates batty, especially Erika, who can actually sing on tune.    From Wordnik.com.  [AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters] Reference