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2. Marimba - Wikipedia

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   The marimba is the most popular solo keyboard percussion instrument in classical music. Popular marimba solos range from beginner solos such as Yellow After the Rain and Sea Refractions by Mitchell Peters to more advanced works such as Variations on Lost Love by David Maslanka, Rhythmic Caprice by Leigh Howard Stevens and Khan Variations by ...

3. List of idiophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number - Wikipedia

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   111.212 Sets of percussion sticks in a range of different pitches combined into one instrument. - All xylophones, as long as their sounding components are not in two different planes. Balafon; Gandingan a kayo; Glasschord; Glass Marimba; Kulintang a kayo; Luntang or kwintangan kayo; Marimba; Marimbaphone (also bowed) Pong lang; Xylophone; Xylorimba

4. List of percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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   Instruments classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as struck or friction idiophones, struck or friction membranophones or struck chordophones. Where an instrument meets this definition but is often or traditionally excluded from the term percussion this is noted. Instruments commonly used as unpitched and/or untuned percussion.

5. List of national instruments (music) - Wikipedia

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   marimba [38] Xylophone-like instrument with gourd resonators, two sets of overlapping keys, struck with mallets 111.222-4 Corsica: cetera ceterina, cetara A musical instrument of the cittern family, common in Corsica. 111.224-4 Crete: lyra [39] Three-stringed fretted, pear-shaped instrument with a hollow body and a vaulted back, propped up on ...

6. Music of Mali - Wikipedia

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   These are typically accompanied by a full dance band The common instruments of the Maninka jeli ensemble are; [4] kora (21-24 string lute-harp, classified by the manner of playing as well as the bridge structure) balafon (slat xylophone with small gourd resonators) n'goni (4-7 string lute)

7. Marimbaphone - Wikipedia

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   Its timbre was similar to the celesta, and it was used mainly by marimba bands and as a solo instrument by stage artists. In addition to being played with mallets in the conventional way (as in the playing of a marimba or vibraphone ), the marimbaphone was designed so that its bars could be rotated from a horizontal position to a vertical ...

8. Balafon - Wikipedia

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   The balafon (pronounced / ˈ b æ l ə f ɒ n /, or, by analogy with xylophone etc., / ˈ b æ l ə f oʊ n /) is a gourd-resonated xylophone, a type of struck idiophone. [1] It is closely associated with the neighbouring Mandé, Bwaba Bobo, Senoufo and Gur peoples of West Africa, [1] [2] particularly the Guinean branch of the Mandinka ethnic group, [3] but is now found across West Africa from ...

9. Xylophone - Wikipedia

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   The term xylophone may be used generally, to include all such instruments such as the marimba, balafon and even the semantron. However, in the orchestra , the term xylophone refers specifically to a chromatic instrument of somewhat higher pitch range and drier timbre than the marimba , and these two instruments should not be confused.