marimba

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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

Their collaboration, “Odyssey,” finds common ground in synthesizer-centered 1980s pop, specifically Talking Heads’ 1980 “Once in a Lifetime” plus a lot of marimba or xylophone overdubs.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 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