marimba

Julius Wechter was playing marimba — dear friend of mine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

He holds small mallets in his “hands” to play a kind of xylophone called a marimba.

From NewsForKids.net ● Apr. 1, 2024

Jacob was nearly vibrating with excitement as the strings rippled and marimba clattered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

Sylvestrov’s “Mystère” was a symphony of percussion in which the alto flutist Ginevra Petrucci elegantly snaked her way through a battery of timpani, cymbals, glockenspiel, marimba, Thai gong and more.

From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 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

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

Lange’s first full-length album as Helado Negro, “Awe Owe,” blended some of the sounds of his South Florida upbringing into warm bilingual jams, weaving whimsical freak folk into mellow beats and melting marimbas.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2021

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

As for the Partch, it was played by Partch, guitarist John Schneider’s ensemble dedicated to re-creating the art-object Partch instruments — the cloud chamber bowls, the exotic massive marimbas and the like.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2018

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