marimba
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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
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
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
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
It unfurls on a steeply raked stage bordered by corrugated metal and surrounded by seven large marimbas.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2017
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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