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- noun Plural form of
marimba .
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Examples
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"marimbas" and "xylophones" that create music continuously triggered by seismic activity around the world.
Variety.com 2009
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There were also marimbas, triangles, tambourines, and European instruments that included violins.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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A seismophone that uses giant marimbas to convert the data from earthquakes around the world, thus demonstrating how different regions produce different harmonic patterns.
George Heymont: There's Art Right At Your Fingertips! George Heymont 2010
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"Rabbit Will Run" might be Beam's finest five minutes - pliant vocals over plinking marimbas, whispering flutes and simmering cymbals.
Album reviews: The Decemberists -- "The King Is Dead," Iron & Wine -- "Kiss Each Other Clean," Tennis -- "Cape Dory" Chris Richards 2011
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A seismophone that uses giant marimbas to convert the data from earthquakes around the world, thus demonstrating how different regions produce different harmonic patterns.
George Heymont: There's Art Right At Your Fingertips! George Heymont 2010
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A seismophone that uses giant marimbas to convert the data from earthquakes around the world, thus demonstrating how different regions produce different harmonic patterns.
George Heymont: There's Art Right at Your Fingertips! George Heymont 2010
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Mr. Galante contributed a composition—which includes two marimbas onstage—to which choreographer Miro Magloire added a narrative dream duet for two women.
New Adventures in Composition Pia Catton 2011
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"Rabbit Will Run" might be Beam's finest five minutes - pliant vocals over plinking marimbas, whispering flutes and simmering cymbals.
Indie bands of the future: Don't touch the Ambien Chris Richards 2011
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A pulse is set by marimbas, xylophones, vibraphones and pianos that chugs along, in complex variations, for almost an hour, while over it, under it and around it two clarinettists, four singers, a cellist and a violinist introduce another sort of pulse, the rhythm of our breathing.
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Not just a drum set player, I player rudimental snare drum, xylophones, marimbas, the whole gambit.
Wii Music, Coda SVGL 2009
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