Out of Tune

LOL! The title sounds like the disclaimer often used when advertising pianos for sale in classifieds. Col image… sad loss.

great shot, well done

:-) This one would need one heck of a disclaimer. There were actually two in the church. I don’t know why someone didn’t remove them before they were destroyed by the elements.

I like this.

that is AWESOME!!!! I love this shot!!!!!!!!!!

Great shot. Love the tones. (Pardon the pun!)

It doesn’t get any cooler than this photo! Awesome!

Says it all! – Great work

Great photo – it elicits emotion from piano-lovers like me. Love the muted colors.

Great shot. I love the way something so old and forgotten can be turned into a work or art.

Bought it on a card

This is brilliant but I find this image quite sad as I can’t believe how such a beautiful instrument can get so destroyed. Beautifully captured,

I love this photo.

Oh no! what happened? Great shot though

Poor baby.

O.O WOW!!!

I cant stop looking at this it is so beautiful!!

Mmm Haunting. Great emotive image – sad to see something that took someone so long to create lie abandoned and unloved.

wow, what a find.
beautiful.

Your work has real style, nice job

Sacrilege! So well captured.

great shot and coloring

Awesom shot

Great shot!

Superb capture.

Elegant decay, great job.

when in college a piano store in a nearby town had burned down…this image reminds me of the sadness that was left over…......and even though sad? is still beautiful!

Powerful image of an abandoned instrument! Sad but effective. Great capture!

Outstanding shot! I love the depth and richness of this piece! Even though it presents an image of destruction, there is an elegance…

truly magnificent…everything talking picturesquely….very very effective plus emotive

there are a lot of themes within….

drama….historical effects….happiness…sadness….abandonment…

many inspiring materials

absolutely food for thought!

and for imagination!

greeeeeaaaaattttt!!!

xoxoxoxox!!!!

Great image.

great photo.
sharon a.

Congrats on being featured – straight into my favs – just so nostalgic and inspirational. Stunning

Great photo, well done!

Love this image. . . the tales.

it’s a great potential that you saw in getting this to be a fantastic photo! great job.

far out, it seems. nice description. Good photo.

I love the complexity of this shot, how many things are going on within the frame that make you take pause. Nicely done!

Aww wicked! I love how you slightly saturated this image to create a melancholy and haunting atmosphere.

Fantastic shot. Beautiful light. Congrats on making the homepage!

THATS ONE HELL OF A PIC GRATE !!!

thats beautiful! great find.

WOW Great shot n Story!

how awesome

Thank you all for the wonderful comments and thanks to Redbubble for posting it on the homepage.

great capture. the light feels just right as do the dull grungy colors!

This is a great shot, I like the tones, and detail.
However, I hate the fact that a piano just goes to waste like this!

And yet a child could still make this ring out a fantastic tune!!!! Fantastic find and a great capture!!!

wow, love it!

WOW THIS IS VERY COOL

wow, totally rad work.

Old time rock’n roll….
A wonderful picture…

POS

fabulous presentation!

As my mom is in the piano restoring and tuning business, I have learnt a lot about pianos. They are beautiful and fascinating instruments. It’s amazing to think that an average piano action contains 7500 moving parts, and that the 230 strings exert a combined tension of approximately 18 tons!
Your wonderful capture of this derelict piano conveys a lingering sense of melancholy, of the fragility, transcience and ephemeral beauty of life. Exquisite light and toning, an amazing image! (Wonder whether my mom and her partner would consider it restorable?)

Beautiful.
Oh, the stories….

A truly exceptional find…...and capture!

wow. speechless. so sad…

What a beautiful old dear. Great find & capture. (p.s. congrats on home page!)

beautiful….my piano is outside and the birds play the music on it….love it

What a great find love the treatment

Great image, nice work on the feature. :)

brilliant image/as love pianos and would love to know where you found this/guess I should read the comments

fabulous to see this image on homepage

gorgeous, gorgeous shot.

great shot, amazing picture…well done!!!!

Out of tune, out of time .. there’s a definite poem waiting to be written about this piece!

It’s a very good photograph, with a potential for both great depression and wild inspiration.

Love it! Great eye!

Masterful work.

Stunning image excellent find and description and you make it live on!

Nice image, great narrative…

beautiful

what a priceless find – great shot

wow, love the repitition.. and the color works really well here with the antique feel of the image.

amazing.

WOW. THIS CAUGHT MY EYE ..GREAT SHOT.

great.

Everything in time fades yet there is a beauty that lingers here.

Beautiful… moving really

Brilliant picture. I lve the treatment

This is excellent!! Brilliantly captured.

a piano’s past of great inspiration and wonder, brilliantly captured

What a fantastic find!
Beautifully photographed… nice one :)

It is a great find indeed, and an interesting photo…Great shot…

waonderful tones and amazing shot, congrats on the feature

Thank you all for the comments and thank you RedBubble for the feature.

great picture!

whoa!

super cool

wonderful detail, you almost expect one of the borrowers to run out!

wickedly awesome!!

Love the colours and textures of the decay…..

There something always interesting about decay. I like it.

something big

Awesome and sad photo.

stunning powerfull very good.

absolutely gorgeous

Hey that looks like my piano . . . oh yeah, I don’t have one anymore ;) Great shot! Brilliant!

absolutely sensational. I keep going back to it for ‘one more look’!

What a great find! You’ve done it justice – lovely lighting and really interesting framing. Terrific title!

wow love this find…great work, perfect title!

Great one.

Wow amazing shot, great lighting, perfect!!!

stunning work Andy, very well taken!!

Great find!

this is a great photo, “who took the ivory?... LOL”

Love the image AND the description

amazing….Great …..

..........ok, it’s creepy.

but that’s what i love about it.

good work

wow all i can say is wow.!

beautifully haunting shot

cool

beautiful tones in this image – another ‘wow’ from me

very nice photo! cool title too!

I really like how you’ve captured and described the abandoment of a once vibrant music instrument!

beautiful shot. oh the tales it could tell. very nice!

Awesome shot, and great title as well, very nice!!

very theatrical! it speaks for itself!

wow!!!! an abandoned piano. amazing.

what a great find, great shot

Man when do we get to meet the congregation?.. EEK!
(I love the composition!!)
;0)

When I first looked at this, my first impression was a piano that had been really well ‘loved’, maybe too much….years and years of people playing and playing…and now put to rest. So much history in this photo. I just love it.

great shot. I have a strong urge to take up piano again… cheers

My dad used to recondition and tune pianos, but I think this one might be beyond even his loving and skilled hands!! ha ha. Love it!

Just a we bit lol.
Fantastic shot,well done…....................

Fantastic image

what an amazing find..awesome work!

This is superb and wonderful!

This is Absolutely amazing! it took my breath way…I love the words you have written to go along with it. The title is perfect! ....great work!

So sad: abandoned church & derelict piano, but nicely photographed. We thought our pianola was in poor condition!

what could be more beautiful and graceful?

Good angle and lighting make this a great shot. Well done.

wow, what a find .. such a treasure ..

so many memories in those keys …

wow
so old
such a gr8 story in it

brilliant!!

I’ve always loved this image, congrats on the home page, it’s very well deserved :o)

Great shot!
Congrats on making homepage!

Brilliant image…Love the tones and amazing find

Gorgeous! Love this one a lot!

So crumbled and used. Great photo!

Haunting! Great!

Absolutely amazing, beautiful shot!

great detail.

Nice melancholy photo

This looks fantastic…what a find! ...and CONGRATS on being featured on the Homepage!!! ;)

Oh sad day… But great shot!

Lovely shot – so sad. Full of nostalgia.

Congrats on the Home Page!!

great title and shot but such a sad image. well captured.

Great photo imagine many restaurants and bistros would love this one.

Stunning!

amazing work

Congratulations on the Homepage – it’s a wonderful photograph.

Wow, amazing. It does give that haunting feel.

Wow.

Excellent image. Composition, detail, tones, everything…spot on. Fills me with sadness to look at this…. great work

amazingly creative work!

Fantastic work! Very moody feel to it! Well done!

Excelent shot, Angle and illumination. wow!

Poor old thing, a great find though, you’ve made a fantastic image from it.

nice image!!!

one of the best photos ever. period.

this is great…..

wonderful capture

Great lines and detail

Great pic!

oh wow! what a wonderful shot!

great shot! love the colours

Gorgeous capture. A bit sad but you turned this abuse into a treasure. Just beautiful.

Wow what a lovely find~

wonderful

GREAT! LOVE IT/.......FRANCESM

incredible capture!

very fine.

what a great find!
you’ve captured its essence greatly!

treasure find ~ what a magnificent beauty !!

This is a beautiful find. What you have done with it is Magical!!!!!
Susan

Heartbreaker of an image!!!! Stunning beauty!!!! Congratulations on this amazing find and the execution of its perfect reproduction!!

It is a brilliant photograph, I adore the deep tonal quality and beautiful colours!

Thought provoking image, well composed, well lit.

Great capture…

so priceless!

wow, amazing find! great shot

Absolutely wonderful!

A haunting image indeed. Beautifully captured Andy. Oh I can only imagine the wonderful songs and music once played on this magical old piano.

VERY CHALLENGING

Very Cool! Please consider submitting this to Urban Explorers

brilliant capture

Wow, so glad I ran across this. Makes me stare at it! Thank you!

get lost with no music ;-) great find

Yeah, I think it’s just a littttttttttle out of tune, lol. As a musician, it’s so cool to see old stuff like this all banged up (is that weird?). Anyway, awesome job :)

Wonderful photo!!

Lovely old feel

Congrats!

Brilliant. What symbolism! Though, maybe you should have called it 4’33” by John Cage? :-)

sure is beyond repair

Congratulations on the home page feature. June 16th 2009.

Omg, I feel so sad! Maybe it is because I’m organist and pianist. :)

Excellent

Superb and haunting.

LOVE IT!!!

Amazing shot- well done!

What a great find!! congrats on the home page!!

loving this evry nice!!

Thank you all for the comments. Thanks Redbubble for the feature!

Wonderful find, shame about its condition, but your capture & description really tells a story :)

wow this is a fantastic shot! looovvvee it

Fantastic!!

♥ Wonderful image !!! Congratulations on your homepage feature !!! :D ♥

Love this. Congratulations on your homepage feature!

Home page again? Must be some kind of record! It is an irresistible image though :)

this is beautiful… gosh, love it!

i really, really love this – what a find – the character of this work is just amazing
congratulations on homepage, bravo!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations on making the homepage!

Congrats on the homepage!

Thanks again, everyone! I truly appreciate all of your comments.

No fingers now draw from it chords
That it once formed, each one like words
Now only insects and birds
Dwell among its strings
And only birds from within
To those outside sings

No more airs of romance
Play as on the keys fingers dance
As a young man gauges his chance
Of a damsel nearby
Who to the music hums
Oblivious to his wandering eye

And we someday the piano shall be
A similar state our bodies will see
Though birds not dwell within maybe
And maybe yes!!!
After our day when it is done
And we to God our sins confess.

Let us when that time is here
To decay and rot let us not fear
It matters not after our time how we appear
Be not be dismayed
When alive, make sure like the piano you
Are often merrily played!

Can I use your photo for the poem above with appropiate credits? I want to make a video from it…