[
US
/mɝˈɪmbə/
]
[ UK /mæɹˈɪmbɐ/ ]
[ UK /mæɹˈɪmbɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets
How To Use marimba In A Sentence
- Here the group combines trombone, a simplistic guitar line, and what sounds like either a marimba or a xylophone.
- In 1989, about five years after he'd taken the job at the woodworking shop, Ron quit to run his marimba business full-time.
- We will have the National Marimba Ensemble from Guatemala, where the marimba is the national instrument by law. Features from Minnesota Public Radio
- The former work is rather seductive, thanks in part to the coos of the three female vocalists and also because of the exotic tones of the marimbas, glockenspiels, and metallophone.
- Don smiles, enjoying the moment as Tom arranges music on four separate stands ready for the chase around the mallets, timpani, marimbas, vibraphones and celesta that he knows will test his agility, his practised facility.
- Bernard explains that the marimba originated with the African balophone, which was brought to central America by African slaves, and then altered by the Spanish influence.
- The band, a nine-member unit consisting of guitar, drums, bass, strings, keyboard, marimbas, and woodwinds, intersperses voice-over narrative with sprawling instrumental melodies.
- I learned to play, a little bit of banjo-mandolin, but there was a xylophone or marimba in my room so I when I was quite little I learned to play that.
- The leader, a much under-appreciated musician, is heard on both vibes and marimba.
- A marimba also is essentially a set of wooden bars, while the glockenspiel and vibraphone involve metal bars.