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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not tuned; unmusical; unharmonious.
Wiktionary
- adj. The state of not having been tuned.
- adj. Of or related to a musical instrument that doesn't produce specific pitches, e.g. many drums and cymbals.
Examples
“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.”
The Washington Post: In concert: Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt at the Birchmere
“Drunken college students strum untuned strings and shout incoherent lyrics into flames of illegal campfires.”
“Considerable skill was required to do this, however, and an untuned Model 70 trigger was a horror.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Or of the serenades sung with a guitar which now lies mute, untuned.”
“In "Music for Midsummer's Eve," time is an "untuned harmonium/That Muzaks our nights and days.”
“The noise sounds like the white noise background of an untuned radio.”
“The bells of street corner Santa Clauses, the familiar Christmas records on the phonograph, the sweet, untuned voices of Christmas carolers.”
“I'm Waiting For the Man," a jumpy tune about trying to score drugs, unravels in a jumble of pounding keyboard and untuned guitar.”
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