Crossword clues for marimba
marimba
- Male setter's inside playing Arab instrument
- West Side Story number about doctor's instrument
- Successful students will retain edge in percussion instrument
- Instrument maker ultimately deeply hurt about two keys
- Instrument doctor used to probe woman
- Deep toned percussion instrument
- Kind of band
- Xylophone relative
- Relative of a xylophone
- Xylophone-like instrument from Africa
- Vibraphone relative
- Instrument played with mallets
- Instrument for a merengue
- Cousin of the xylophone
- Xylophone cousin
- Percussion instrument
- Instrument whose name is of Bantu origin
- Guatemala's national instrument
- Played with small mallets
- A percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators
- Musical instrument
- Xylophone's kin
- Xylophone's cousin
- Xylophone's relative
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marimba \Ma*rim"ba\, n. [Pg.]
A musical istrument of percussion, consisting of bars
yielding musical tones when struck.
--Knight.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1704, from an African language, probably Bantu (compare Kimbundu and Swahili marimba, malimba, name of a xylophone-like instrument).
Wiktionary
n. A musical instrument similar to a xylophone but clearer in pitch.
WordNet
n. a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets [syn: xylophone]
Wikipedia
The marimba is a percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars struck with mallets to produce musical tones. Resonators suspended underneath the bars amplify their sound. The bars are arranged like the keys of a piano, with the groups of 2 and 3 accidentals raised vertically, overlapping the natural bars to aid the performer both visually and physically. This instrument is a type of idiophone, but with a more resonant and lower-pitched tessitura than the xylophone.
The marimba was developed in Central America by African slaves, and descended from its ancestral balafon instrument, which was also built by African slaves. Marimba is now the national instrument of Guatemala.
Modern uses of the marimba include solo performances, woodwind and brass ensembles, marimba concertos, jazz ensembles, marching band ( front ensembles), drum and bugle corps, and orchestral compositions. Contemporary composers have used the unique sound of the marimba more and more in recent years.
A player of the Marimba can be called a Marimbist or a Marimba Player.
A marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. The term may also refer to:
- Marimba, Angola, a municipality in Malanje Province, Angola
- Marimba, Inc., a former provider of configuration management software, now part of BMC Software
- Marimba 2010, a three-day international festival and conference on music of the marimba
- Marimba-xylophone, another name for Xylorimba, a pitched percussion instrument corresponding to a xylophone with an extended range
- Marimba Lumina, a MIDI controller invented by Donald Buchla
- Marimba One, a manufacturer of handmade marimbas
- Marimba Roney, Swedish journalist and television host
- marimbaphone, a tuned percussion instrument similar to the marimba
Usage examples of "marimba".
He was pointing out the first marimba player that they had seen, and Margo had time to study the musician while the car paused for others to peer at the university.
The marimba player was setting up his instrument on a broad sidewalk opposite the esplanade, while eager natives watched.
More interesting to Margo than the bare-legged player, was the marimba itself.
When the player struck the marimba with small hammers, the gourds gave out soft, plaintive tones, perfectly in key.
Through a gateway not far from the marimba player, Margo glimpsed a lovely patio surrounded by a wall.
Again, Margo saw the marimba player, who by this time had gathered quite a crowd about him.
With the notes of the marimba flitting in from the great gate, The Shadow had an excellent musical score accompanying his next exploit.
The marimba player was packing up his gourds, anxious to get away from this dangerous vicinity.
They had hired a strolling marimba player to entertain with his music, and the mellow notes of the instrument were blending with the tinkle of the illuminated fountains.
The marimba player arrived with the guards, who were bringing buckets of champagne and a tray of caviar sandwiches.
With another laugh, the marimba player continued the jest by plucking one of the larger gourds from beneath the keyboard.
So they had another round of champagne, while the marimba player banged out more music, unhampered by the missing key.
Marching toward the courtyard, between the ranks of riflemen, The Shadow glanced behind him and saw the marimba player following, with his bulky instrument.
He was plucking gourds from his marimba, like grapes off a bunch, and tossing them behind him.
Rewards were offered for the capture of The Shadow and a marimba player who might be Colin Nayre.