marimba
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Julius Wechter was playing marimba — dear friend of mine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
When experimenting more with the marimba, an instrument their late father taught them, they unintentionally created this fusion of rock-style 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
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
They would weave through the cemetery with their marimbas — a percussion instrument with a warm sound, similar to a xylophone — between the elevated tombs, playing traditional Latin music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
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
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
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