marimba

Noun

Meaning

A musical istrument of percussion, consisting of bars yielding musical tones when struck.

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I decided to pack up my marimba and split. Sophie B. Hawkins

Adding higher notes is also impractical because the hardness of the mallets required to produce the characteristic tone of a marimba are much too hard to play with in almost any other, lower range on the instrument. Source: Internet

It is also the key to the "mellow" sound of the vibraphone (and marimba, which uses the same deep arch) compared with the xylophone, which uses a shallower arch, and the glockenspiel, which has no arch at all. Source: Internet

In the U.S., there are Zimbabwean marimba bands in particularly high concentration in the Pacific Northwest, Colorado, and New Mexico, but bands exist from the East Coast through California and even to Hawaii and Alaska. Source: Internet

Mallets suitable for the vibraphone are also generally suitable for the marimba. Source: Internet

Construction Folk and popular marimba Bars Marimba bars are typically made of either wood or synthetic material. Source: Internet

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