What is Marimba ? What is Marimba used for ?

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What is Marimba ? What is Marimba used for ? What does a Marimba sound like ? What is the difference between Marimba and Xylophone ?

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What is Marimba ?

Marimba (also known as Marimbaphone) is a key instrument from the percussion instrument family. Sound is obtained by hitting the keys made of wood with mallets. It has 4 ⅓ - 5 ½ octave sound field (C2 - F7). The keys are arranged as on the piano.

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What is the history of Marimba ?

Chromatic Marimba is derived from Diatonic Marimba in Southern Mexico and Northern Guatemala. The ancestor of this diatonic marimba is the reconstructed balafon in Central America by African slaves.

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What does Marimba mean ? What is Marimba unique to ?

Marimba is a musical istrument of percussion, consisting of bars yielding musical tones when struck. Marimba is unique to Mexico and Guatemala.

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What is Marimba ?

Marimba is a kind of xylophone peculiar to Southern Africa and Central America with resonators beneath each bar.

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What does a Marimba sound like ? What is the origin of Marimba ?

Marimba is a xylophone-like musical tool that has its origins in Africa. It is a modern orchestral instrument which makes sound when wooden mallets are hit against a series of graduated wooden bars on top of resonators.

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What is Marimba similar to ?

Marimba is similar to Xylophone. Marimba always reminds me of Xylophone. However it is very different from Xylophone.

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What does Marimba mean ?

Marimba is a musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of wooden bars which are sounded by striking with small hammers. These hammers are called mallet.

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Which country is famous with Marimba music ?

Nicaragua is famous with Marimba music.