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{{stub}}[[File:Marimba One 4000 Series.jpg|thumb|The Marimba One 4000 Series.]]A struck idiophone and xylophone, the marimba is used in many genres of music, such as Jazz, Mexican/Latin, New Classical music, drumcore/marching bands, and percussion ensemble. Marimba samples are also used sometimes in electronic music, should that count. Most marimbas have a range of 4.3, 4.5, or 5 octaves.
[[File:Marimba One 4000 Series.jpg|thumb|The Marimba One 4000 Series.]]The marimba is a struck idiophone. It has long been used in sub-Saharan Africa and southeast Asia, often in an equiheptatonic or equipentatonic tuning. In more recent times, the marimba has appeared in many genres of Western music, such as Jazz, Mexican/Latin, New Classical music, drumcore/marching bands, and percussion ensemble. Most Western marimbas have a range of 4.3, 4.5, or 5 octaves.


== Sound ==
== Sound ==
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== Music ==
== Music ==
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== Reference ==
* Iván Cipactli [https://youtu.be/Tju1Al-NbtA?si=I1UGPd_1QfrcVrAQ ''Marimba microtonal Iván Cipactli- miCROfest 2018''] and [https://youtu.be/gXKuOUwaOoA?si=eDcjvSzvQM9J8Eio ''Concierto de marimba microtonal'']
[http://www.lafavre.us/tuning-marimba.htm Reference site for tuning a marimba by Jeff La Favre]
* Redshift Music Society [https://youtu.be/7Z6upBD6gKQ?si=GIuGi_O0mmr10Odz ''Echo in aetheria, for microtonal glass marimba''] (31edo) and [https://youtu.be/v4SxhKNopxA?si=gG0S12euwb3EivYv ''Asterion, for microtonal glass marimba''] (31edo)
 
== References ==
* Jeff La Favre. [http://www.lafavre.us/tuning-marimba.htm ''Tuning the Marimba Bar and Resonator'']
* J. Haaheim and A. Merkle. (1999) [https://jasonhaaheim.com/wp-content/uploads/PHY305_1999_Haaheim_Merkle_Acoustical-Studies-of-the-Marimba.pdf ''Acoustical Studies of the Marimba''] (lab report)


[https://jasonhaaheim.com/wp-content/uploads/PHY305_1999_Haaheim_Merkle_Acoustical-Studies-of-the-Marimba.pdf Acoustical Studies of the Marimba pdf]
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