The shoulders were sunken, the head was bowed, the racquet spewed sour notes like an out-of-tune piano.

That doesn't mean you have to dine in silence or to a repertory of golden oldies played off-key on an out-of-tune piano.

The song appears midway through act I; it is played on an out-of-tune piano at a honky-tonk frequented by prostitutes and their clients.

There is also an out-of-tune 19th-century piano, along with traditional orchestra and subtly integrated electronic elements.

In the farther corner, under a lattice window, was a jangling, out-of-tune piano, being hammered by a stout black man.

In another, he bangs out part of a Chopin nocturne on an out-of-tune piano.

She played a sampling keyboard in the two older works, producing sounds that were interesting when they did not simply mimic an out-of-tune piano.

There is an out-of-tune upright piano and a coffee machine with an anisette bottle next to it.

Nearby someone was singing badly to a melody played on an out-of-tune piano.

The group was also working with malfunctioning equipment, including an out-of-tune piano and an uncalibrated tape recorder.