Marimba (disambiguation)

A marimba is a xylophone-like percussion instrument played with mallets.

Marimba may also refer to:

Instruments

• Glass marimba, a type of idiophone also known as a vitrephone or crystallophone
• Marimba (lamellophone), a plucked box instrument also known as the marímbula
• Marimba Lumina, a MIDI controller that lets a musician play music via a control surface based on the layout of a marimba
• Marimbaphone, a tuned percussion instrument similar to the marimba, which can also be played with a bow
• Marimba-xylophone, another name for xylorimba, a pitched percussion instrument corresponding to a xylophone with an extended range

People

Individuals

• Marimba Ani, anthropologist and African Studies scholar
• Marimba Roney (born 1976), Swedish journalist and television host

Groups

• Baja Marimba Band, American band of the 1960s and early 1970s
• Classical Marimba League, international organization dedicated to the advancement of the marimba
• Cuban Marimba Band, Tanzanian big band active from 1948 into the 1960s
• Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens, American musical group active from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s

Other

• Queen Marimba, African folk hero

Science

• Leucanopsis marimba, a moth of the family Erebidae found in Venezuela
• Marginella marimba, a species of sea snail found off Angola

Other uses

• Marimba, Angola, a municipality in Malanje Province
• Marimba, Inc., a former provider of configuration management software, bought by BMC Software in 2004

See also

• All pages with titles containing Marimba
• Marimbault, a commune in France
• Mbira, a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe