Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large wooden percussion instrument with resonators, resembling a xylophone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An African musical instrument formed of a number of strips of wood of various sizes yielding different notes when struck by a hammer. The sound is often reinforced by resonators formed from calabashes placed underneath.
- noun In the Kongo region and Angola, a name of a musical instrument with iron keys; the sansa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A musical istrument of percussion, consisting of bars yielding musical tones when struck.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
musical instrument similar to axylophone but clearer in pitch.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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From "Bach on Wood" (a marimba, that is) and Vivaldi on the Japanese Koto, to Schubert on a wood-cutting saw and Wagner on power tools, dozens of classical composers have been subjected to strange arrangements.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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From "Bach on Wood" (a marimba, that is) and Vivaldi on the Japanese Koto, to Schubert on a wood-cutting saw and Wagner on power tools, dozens of classical composers have been subjected to strange arrangements.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Czech, as they call it in show business, he studied at the top with his father and Secor after he entered the National Conservatory, where, despite not having completed the race, gained solid knowledge that enabled him to replace his parent from the day of his death in 1968, in which it owned and ran marimba, which is why he saw it clear to interrupt their studies because it required the commitment of its permanent presence in the set.
www.blogalaxia.com Directorio y Buscador de Blogs Latinos 2008
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And attentive music fans who know that much has been made about the White Stripes 'inclusion of a marimba song on their new album, "Get Behind Me Satan," ought to consider that a "marimba" search on the Global Sounds site delivers seven pages of results.
Encore 2007
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Some sites keep mentioning a toy piano/triangle sound on one of their songs as opposed to the marimba which is also on stage.
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"We will have the National Marimba Ensemble from Guatemala, where the marimba is the national instrument by law.
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But the marimba is a luscious big round-sounding instrument, "he said.
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"We will have the National Marimba Ensemble from Guatemala, where the marimba is the national instrument by law.
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"We will have the National Marimba Ensemble from Guatemala, where the marimba is the national instrument by law.
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But the marimba is a luscious big round-sounding instrument, "he said.
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