marimba

Leading an orchestra of 22, featuring lively colorations from saxophone, harp, marimba and guitar, conductor Michael Sakir captured the music’s landscape of alternating pulse and elegy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

He holds small mallets in his “hands” to play a kind of xylophone called a marimba.

From NewsForKids.net ● Apr. 1, 2024

It’s a countryish song with south-of-the border touches like marimba and flutes, a style jovially summed up as “Gulf and Western.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2023

Hollywood church, rose to leadership, sang in the choir, played marimba occasionally, performed in community theater and kept writing letters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2023

With a final kick, a final marimba concert, a final autumnal lunge through leaf stacks, they went home.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

She took classical piano lessons as a child but gravitated to the drums, marimbas and synths kept in her instructor’s piano room.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2022

Lange’s first full-length album as Helado Negro, “Awe Owe,” blended some of the sounds of his South Florida upbringing into warm bilingual jams, weaving whimsical freak folk into mellow beats and melting marimbas.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2021

The former bore the influence of world music – African rhythms, marimbas, flamenco, calypso – while the latter stirred jazz, tabla drums and zydeco-inspired accordion into the mix.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2019

In the early 1980s, Tom Waits drew inspiration from Partch’s jerry-rigged chemistry-lab–castoff and scrap-metal sound engines to switch from piano crooning to hammering on car parts, marimbas, and parade drums with Swordfishtrombones.

From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2016

Or like marimbas only with a funny little plucked sound to it like if you were running your fingers across the teeth of a metal comb.

From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros