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Marimba

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Dance Monkey - Tones and I / Marimba Cover

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"Drive" (as orig. performed by Black Coffee/Guetta)- 2019 Hilton College Competition Marimba band.

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Emmanuel Séjourné: Attraction (short version) performed by Christoph Sietzen

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Michael Buble - Sway (Lyrics) | When marimba rhythms start to play

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Super Mario Bros. on Marimba (with 4 Mallets) by Aaron Grooves

The marimba is a percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars struck with mallets called knobs to produce musical tones. Resonators or pipes suspended underneath the bars amplify their sound. The bars of a chromatic marimba are arranged like the keys of a piano, with the groups of two and three accidentals raised vertically, overlapping the natural bars to aid the performer both visually and physically. This instrument is a type of idiophone, but with a more resonant and lower-pitched tessitura than the xylophone. A person who plays the marimba is called a marimbist or a marimba player.
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