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marimba::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | xylophone |
| Type of | percussion instrument, percussive instrument |
Examples of marimba
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Meran also picked up the marimba and constructed one of her own to keep at home.
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Mallets suitable for the vibraphone are also generally suitable for the marimba.
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The sounds of marimba music floated in through open windows from the plaza below.
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The piece begins with Currie gently playing his favorite instrument, the marimba.
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Musical instruments include the marimba and others common across Central America.
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The marimba was introduced by African slaves brought to Chiapas by the Spanish.
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Nicaraguan music is traditionally marimba-based, it also includes Garifuna music.
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Piazzolla's tango style is unmistakable even through a haze of marimba resonances.
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The Nelson seemed to get the tautest performance, with some virtuoso marimba licks.
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- A percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets
- The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. Keys or bars (usually made of wood) are struck with mallets to produce musical tones. ...
- Marimba is a town and municipality in Malanje Province in Angola.
- A musical instrument similar to a xylophone but clearer in pitch
- (Marimbas) A modern commercially manufactured, fully resonated orchestral xylophone.
- An instrument that consists of a large frame holding wooden resonator bars. This musical instrument is played with mallets.
- A pitched percussion instrument consisting of wooden bars struck by a mallet
- Large scale xylophone with thin, wide bars and tuned tubular resonators, producing a sound much mellower and more sustained than that of the xylophone. ...
- Looks like the Xylophone but has resonators under each bar. It is a member of the percussion family and can be quite large. Originally from Africa and is popular in Latin America.
