marimba

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

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

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

They would weave through the cemetery with their marimbas — a percussion instrument with a warm sound, similar to a xylophone — between the elevated tombs, playing traditional Latin music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

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 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