If you take four slabs of wood, each the size of, say, a coffin lid, and cushion each one atop a wooden resonance chamber as large as a piano cabinet, what you end up with may look like a carpenter’s ...

SAN ANTONIO – A Judson ISD music teacher is introducing students to a new sound. For weeks, Park Village Blended Learning Academy students have been learning how to play the marimba. “It got difficult ...

Bojan Hoover, a 20-year-old percussionist, has been playing the marimba for nine years and will perform with the Missoula Symphony Orchestra this weekend. Photo by KURT WILSON/Missoulian Click here to ...

Everything we learn, we learn rote,” Peggy Carlson said, discussing how the Zimbabwean marimba groups she leads in Fairbanks ...

To you, it might look like big xylophone. But to Matthew Coley, it’s “the grand soloist instrument of the percussion world.” It’s the marimba, and the focus of his ensemble of eight musicians. For ten ...

SOFT marimba melodies drift across the entrance of Gava Restaurant in Harare, greeting guests before plates of hearty lunches and the roar of live bands take over.At the centre of this gentle musical ...