Examples of marimba in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Others played drums and marimba, a traditional instrument of wooden bars played using mallets. — Farai Mutsaka, ajc, 17 July 2022 At a nearby table, Boris Mellado, 50, his wife, Mardy, 47, and his mother-in-law, Berta Mendez, 71, watched a marimba band set up for a live performance. — Ruben Vives Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2021 Hailing from Mexico City, Son Rompe Pera is quite likely the only band around that uses a marimba as its lead instrument while fusing punk, garage-rock and Jamaican ska with Colombian cumbia music. — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2022 The area includes a wheelchair-accessible labyrinth, a wooden marimba to stimulate auditory senses, and raised copper animals on the benches for kids to touch. — Anthony Cammalleri, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2022 The album also featured the 16-stringed surrogate kithara, the 847-pound marimba eroica and other one-of-a-kind instruments created and built by the late composer Harry Partch. — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2022 The drum and marimba pound while the suns dance, change color and even dangle menacingly over the audience—their combined heat makes the Earth burn and die. — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022 Four artists on vibraphone and marimba near the conductor and two pianos tapped out mesmerizing patterns, falling in and out synch with wave-like orchestral surges. — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 6 Feb. 2022 Categories include music education, brass, classical guitar, organ, piano, marimba/classical steel drum, strings, voice and woodwinds. — Marc Bona, cleveland, 31 Dec. 2021 See More

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