out-of-tune

A motorized rope winch whined like out-of-tune bagpipes.

For portions of “async,” he performed on an out-of-tune piano that had been partly submerged in the 2011 Tohoku tsunami.

The hostel’s ancient, out-of-tune piano, missing many keys, drove us all batty, but it’s one of the charms of the place.

After playing a few notes on an out-of-tune piano, Lydia makes her way up to her childhood bedroom, where she finds a collection of Leonard Bernstein videos she watched when she was young.

Producers infuriated the choir director by choosing a slightly out-of-tune version of the carol; they thought it captured an innocence they were seeking, said Bang, who wrote liner notes for the box set.