{i} xylophone-like instrument that has its origins in Africa, modern orchestral instrument which makes sound when wooden pallets are hit against a series of graduated wooden bars on top of resonators
A member of the percussion instrument family It is pitched, with wooden bars laid out like a piano keyboard and metal tubes underneath each bar to add to the resonance It has the following stages of sound production: energy source: muscle vibrating element: metal bars resonating chamber: the bars and tubes Related instruments include the xylophone and the vibraphone
a musical instrument like a xylophone. Xylophone 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
A musical instrument, originating in Africa but popularized and modified in Central America, consisting of a set of graduated wooden bars, often with resonators beneath to reinforce the sound, struck with mallets