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marimba: see xylophone xylophone (zī`ləfōn) [Gr. ..... Click the link for more information. . marimbaXylophone with resonators under each bar. The original African instrument uses tuned calabash resonators. In Mexico and Central America, where it was brought by African slaves, the wooden bars may be affixed to a frame supported by legs or hung at the player's waist. The orchestral marimba uses long metal tubes as resonators. Marimba(Marimba, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, www.marimba.com) A software company founded in 1996 by four key members of Sun's original Java development team. In 1996, it introduced Castanet, a family of Java-based delivery systems for publishing and automatically distributing application updates and other published materials via the Internet and intranets. Other Marimba products addressed the key areas of security management, infrastructure management and change and configuration management. marimba a Latin American percussion instrument consisting of a set of hardwood plates placed over tuned metal resonators, played with two soft-headed sticks in each hand How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Watching the Scottish percussionist perform on various instruments -- from snare drums to marimbas -- is more than inspirational, however. 21) connotes the transporting beauty, "weight" of worship, and grounding of Mouride faith while referring to the notes of marimbas and the clubs sometimes carried by Baye Falls (Fig. Though composed for marimbas and bongos instead of samplers and sequencers, the kind of layered, modular repetition fostered by Reich and Glass is the stuff of which techno is made. |
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