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The term marimba refers to both the traditional version of this instrument and its modern form. Its first documented use in the English language dates back to 1704. [1] The term is of Bantu origin, deriving from the prefix ma-meaning 'many' and -rimba meaning 'xylophone'. The term is akin to Kikongo and Swahili marimba or malimba. [2]
Ireland: Armstrong, Robert Bruce (1970). The Irish and Highland Harps. Introduction by Seóirse Bodley. New York: Praeger Publishers. ISBN 0-7165-0073-6. Ireland: Clark, Nora Joan (2003). The Story of the Irish Harp: Its History and Influence. North Creek Press. ISBN 0-9724202-0-7. Ireland: Rimmer, Joan (1969). The Irish Harp. Cork: Mercier ...
The Cubans call it marímbula, and most of the other Caribbean countries have adopted this name or some variant of it: marimba, malimba, manimba, marimbol. The instrument has a number of other names, such as marímbola (Puerto Rico), bass box, calimba (calymba), rhumba box, Church & Clap, Jazz Jim or Lazy Bass , and box lamellophone.
Small cast bells in "Mediterranean tradition" were used by Christians during the first four centuries A.D. [6] Bellmaking was affected with the fall of the Roman Empire, when Germanic tribes took over Europe. In the 5th century Irish Christians were making forged bells of sheet metal. [6]
In Venezuela, the bladder fiddle is known as "marimba, tarimba, guarumba, guasdua, and carangano". [12] The name in Latvian is pūšļa vijole. In Lithuania, the instrument is the Pūslinė. [13] In Poland there is a variant that started as a costume accessory and has become a devil's violin, called the Diabelskie skrzypce .
This is a list of marimba manufacturers, including both past and current marimba makers. This list of songs or music-related items is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( October 2021 )
Although the major entry of the short lute was in western Europe, leading to a variety of lute styles, the short lute entered Europe in the East as well; as early as the 6th century, the Bulgars brought the short-necked variety of the instrument called Komuz to the Balkans. Additionally, the Byzantine Empire bordered on both Europe and Persia.
Only two quadrangular instruments occur within the Irish context on the west coast of Scotland and both carvings date two hundred years after the Pictish carvings. [14] The first true representations of the Irish triangular harp do not appear till the late eleventh century in a reliquary and the twelfth century on stone and the earliest harps used in Ireland were quadrangular lyres as ...