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Afro-Colombian youth playing the marimba de chonta. In Colombia the most widespread marimba is the marimba de chonta (peach-palm marimba). Marimba music has been listed on UNESCO as an intangible part of Colombian culture. [10] In recent times marimberos (marimba players) and the marimba genres as a whole have started to fade out in popularity. [8]
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 )
Marimba: Africa Guatemala Mexico Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica Pitched 111.212 Idiophone Marímbula: Caribbean Pitched 122.1 Idiophone Mark tree: United States Unpitched 111.232 Idiophone Also known as a chime tree or bar chimes: Mbira: Africa Pitched 122.1 Idiophone African musical instrument, a type of plucked idiophone (lamellophone ...
The glass marimba is a type of idiophone also known as a vitrephone or crystallophone. Marimba translates to "a xylophone -like instrument" from an African language, probably Bantu . The glass keys are made of either hard glass ( plate glass ) or soft glass ( stained glass ).
A Lowrey Organ, on a percussive "marimba repeat" setting, provided the synthesizer-like background ostinato on The Who song "Baba O'Riley". [ 10 ] Mike Ratledge of Soft Machine switched from a Vox Continental to a Lowrey Holiday Deluxe [ 1 ] [ failed verification ] sometime between late 1966 and early 1967, and used it from then on, adding a ...
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.
Stevens grip is a technique for playing keyboard percussion instruments with four mallets developed by Leigh Howard Stevens.While marimba performance with two, four, and even six mallets had been done for more than a century, Stevens developed this grip based on the Musser grip, looking to expanded musical possibilities.
Marimba (lamellophone), a plucked box instrument also known as the marímbula Marimba Lumina , a MIDI controller that lets a musician play music via a control surface based on the layout of a marimba Marimbaphone , a tuned percussion instrument similar to the marimba, which can also be played with a bow