Most of us don't know the marimba beyond the ringtone. But believe it or not, this instrument has been a big part of our musical history. The marimba is part of the percussion family of instruments, ...

In this activity students will develop ideas and plans for constructing their own marimbas using readily available materials. As a variation, students could construct other percussion instruments such ...

"In my opinion, it has significance or maybe relationships to African marimbas, but in a way, the marimba, now it has been made or reinterpreted by the Mayan people in Guatemala," said Juan Francisco ...

Marimba is fairly new to Fairbanks, but you wouldn’t know it by watching local marimba players perform right alongside other experienced marimba groups at the first-ever Marimba Madness North ...

Harare, Zimbabwe – Dzivarasekwa, a nondescript township on the southwestern rims of Zimbabwe’s capital, copies the 1907 template of the first ghetto, Harari (now Mbare): grim, monotonous, matchbox ...

The instrument sat dusty and out of tune in the corner of a storage room. Its resonators were cracked, its bars unable to hold notes, and the layer of pig tripe fitted on the clay rings no longer ...