But consider this: We're millions of years down the road from when we first stood upright and walked out of Africa.
That home was all but cleared at 2 30 p.m. Thursday, except for the out-of-tune upright player piano.
Her taste in music runs to German lieder sung at dirge pace to the accompaniment of an out-of-tune upright piano.
Renee Cho, the accompanist, started the song again on the slightly out-of-tune upright piano, and this time the singers brought a smile to Mr. Bratt's face.
As a trio they nailed one of the set's more cohesive numbers, "Maritime Safety"; Mr. Sacks, playing an out-of-tune upright piano, embellished the melody with rickety chord clusters and fast, upsweeping runs.
Along with his baby grand piano, Mr. Medeski had a proudly out-of-tune upright that he used for haunted-house chords, as well as a melodica, a toy piano and a small electric organ.
It was clear from the beginning, both to Galifianakis and to the people who booked him, that he was an awkward fit for the conventional comedy-club format: a video of an early gig shows him sitting at a decrepit upright piano, banging on a single out-of-tune key over and over, threatening not to end his set until it was fixed.
Donated books, novels mostly, line an array of collected bookshelves, top surfaces including an old white upright piano, and spill out of cardboard boxes around the floor.
His long and muscular body, perfectly suited for hunting and killing, is out-of-place and awkward in the upright car seat.
Every time I manage to get myself upright and out of that MRI room, however, I feel like I do when I finish a half marathon or execute a perfect pan of popovers – like a winner.
