Marimba: OmniScriptum Marimba: Musical instrument, Percussion instrument, Mallets, Piano, Accidental (music), List of marimba performers, List of marimba manufacturers

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. Keys or bars (usually made of wood) are struck with mallets to produce musical tones. The keys are arranged as those of a piano, with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natural keys to aid the performer both visually and physically. African marimba music sounds unfamiliar to North American audiences because most of the marimba music played in the Western Hemisphere has been classical and Latinamerican folk. However, marimbas originated in Africa hundreds of years ago and were imported to South America in the sixteenth century. The original African sounds were incorporated into and changed by the music of the local American cultures