marimba

Son Rompe Pera Centered on the hollow tunes of the marimba, Son Rompe Pera brings the rebellious spirit of punk to the Afro-Indigenous beats of cumbia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024

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

From NewsForKids.net ● Apr. 1, 2024

Jenny Lewis didn’t mean to wind up with the marimba.

From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 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

The slippery way Zagga articulates those lines, and the chime of synth marimbas beneath them, makes for the most enticing Emily Post update ever.

From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2020

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

Several evenings a month, musicians from greater Oakland would show up to jam as well, bringing with them their marimbas and African clay drums.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2018

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