A marimba is a xylophone-like percussion instrument played with mallets.
Marimba may also refer to:
Instruments
[edit]- Glass marimba, a type of idiophone also known as a vitrephone or crystallophone
- Marimba (lamellophone), a plucked box instrument also known as the marímbula
- Marimba Lumina, a MIDI controller that lets a musician play music via a control surface based on the layout of a marimba
- Marimbaphone, a tuned percussion instrument similar to the marimba, which can also be played with a bow
- Marimba-xylophone, another name for xylorimba, a pitched percussion instrument corresponding to a xylophone with an extended range
People
[edit]- Individuals
- Marimba Ani, anthropologist and African Studies scholar
- Marimba Roney (born 1976), Swedish journalist and television host
- Groups
- Baja Marimba Band, American band of the 1960s and early 1970s
- Classical Marimba League, international organization dedicated to the advancement of the marimba
- Cuban Marimba Band, Tanzanian big band active from 1948 into the 1960s
- Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens, American musical group active from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s
- Other
- Queen Marimba, African folk hero
Science
[edit]- Leucanopsis marimba, a moth of the family Erebidae found in Venezuela
- Marginella marimba, a species of sea snail found off Angola
Other uses
[edit]- Marimba, Angola, a municipality in Malanje Province
- Marimba, Inc., a former provider of configuration management software, bought by BMC Software in 2004
See also
[edit]- All pages with titles containing Marimba
- Marimbault, a commune in France
- Mbira, a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe