Most of us don't know the marimba beyond the ringtone. But believe it or not, this instrument has been a big part of our musical history. The marimba is part of the percussion family of instruments, ...

For 10 teenage musicians from Botswana, it was supposed to be a dream trip. Many of them had never been out of the country before. "United States of America! Woo!" one said. They were coming to New ...

The instrument sat dusty and out of tune in the corner of a storage room. Its resonators were cracked, its bars unable to hold notes, and the layer of pig tripe fitted on the clay rings no longer ...

Lyons Elementary has so many marimbas, the large keyboard instruments need their own room. The school’s 18 wooden Zimbabwe-style marimbas were built in 2006 by community members through a project led ...

The inventor Jon Madin has sparked a "marimba mania" in schools with his instruments made from everyday materials. Trained as a high school teacher, Madin has run over 2,000 workshops at primary ...

There's a video online, produced by Judson ISD. A bunch of kids jamming Take On Me on the Marimbas. The group was started by Bonnie Anderson, a teacher at Coronado Village Elementary. She and her ...

Artists have it tough everywhere, but maybe nowhere worse, suggests writer-director Julio Hernandez Cordon in his second feature, “Marimbas From Hell,” than his native Guatemala. A more realized film ...

The computer room at a central west New South Wales primary school has been converted to house instruments made from spare car parts, decking boards and PVC pipes. About 60 Parkes East Public School ...

He didn't find his way back until 2006, after he began repairing marimbas and started his own group, La Perla Tuneca. When he called a musician he knew to join, the man's sister-in-law, Mayra Osorio, ...