Translation of "Marimbaphon" in English

Afterwards she studied classical marimba and percussion at the Toho School of Music.

Franz Furrer-Münch: legenden / melismen for violoncello, marimbaphone and percussion (2 players)

Instruments played by the band include a clavinet, Moog Little Phatty, sousaphone, saxophone, trumpet, French horn, flute, bass clarinet, drum set, euphonium, Fender Jazz Bass, Danelectro baritone guitar, xylophone, marimba, melodica and various percussive instruments including pots and pans, toy noisemakers, Chinese funeral horns, spoons, smashing plates, fireworks, and—on occasion—audience members' heads.

Extraordinary ideas of implementation - such as the invention of specialized home-made instruments (f.e. drainpipe marimba), as well as the inclusion of video and sound effects - turn the performances into exciting and surprising experiences.

The 12-piece orchestral scoring, including accordion and marimbaphone, reproduces the original version in dazzling colours and with a fitting temperament.

The concert at the HAU on Wednesday was an extraordinary sound experience. Just like on the album, the performance featured tubular bells, marimba, xylophone, cymbals, a bell carillon, a conventional drum kit and many other percussion instruments.

Sadlo has already worked together with the composer on his concerto "Visions" for marimba and orchestra (2005) and the percussion quartet "Pirotecnia" (2008).

When Simone Rubino plays Johann Sebastian Bach on the marimba, his music seems to be released of temporality, more so than in its original form.

Vibraphone and marimbaphone, played by Franz Bauer, lend the music a full and soft sound.

The members of the Repercussion ensemble, Veith Kloeters, Stephan Müller, Johannes Wippermann and Achim Buschmann – all alumni of the Robert Schumann School of Music and Media – impress with a diverse sound pallet from classic drumming through vibraphone and marimbaphone through to clapping music, and share stages with classic stars like Martin Grubinger.

In early 2005, he discovered the marimba, and, thus, found the instrument that gave him the possibility to express himself musically.

The African Balafon is the ancestor of the family of idiophones like the Xylophone, Vibraphone, Marimbaphone and Glockenspiel.

In "Color of Earth," the incredible drone and swooshing of the Australian didgeridoo is embedded in the glowing static of the African rhythms of marimbas and congas.

How did you get the idea to write for a relatively unknown instrument such as the Marimba?

The construction of this instrumentation with its palette of expression begins with the marimbaphone, the sound of which I feel to be “primal” or essential, with its particular disposition towards iterative rhythms.

This piece was written for the percussionist Sumire Yoshihara, using a wide range of different percussion instruments such as wooden instruments, metal instruments, membraphones, marimbaphone and the like.

The 12-piece orchestra (including accordion and marimba) reproduces the original in shimmering, appropriately spirited ways.

Balz TrÃ1?4mpy Vier Duette (2009) for marimbaphone and guitarEach of the four duets originates in a basic constellation of musical dialogue, which develops in the interplay between the two instruments.

Various prizes followed, among them a major win at the national level of the competition "Jugend musiziert" in the categories of horn and piano as well as chamber music and marimba.

Not only the solo drums perferably uses "wooden sounds" (from Marimbaphone, woodblocks, bullroarer, to self-constructed wood sounders).

Following the successful Swiss premiere in December 2011, Manuel Leuenberger and the Vocal Ensemble of the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), conducted by Markus Utz, recorded the impressive work "Magnum Mysterium" for Marimba and Choir by the Norwegian composer Marcus Paus.

The young musicians who are only 12 to 19 years old and were praised by Mr.Glander as “tomorrow´s artists” enthralled the audience without exception, whether on piano, clarinet, violin, harp, viola or on the marimba.

In order to achieve a true Latin-American sound, the wind and string sections of Kaempfert’s orchestra were reinforced by an exotic range of percussion instruments – bongos, cabasa, congas, cowbell, güiro (rumba gourd), maracas, sandpaper, timbales, triangle, marimba and xylophone -, played by Bert Kaempfert’s drummer Rolf Ahrens, together with percussionists Hans Bekker, Günther Platzek, Max Raths and Manfred Sperling.

The marimbaphone, masterfully played by Udo Diegelmann and central column of all works, remained free of each softening gesture, which with the bell-shaped sounds always lies in the air.

The marimbaphone (or just “marimba”) consists of wooden bars of various lengths which are arranged according to their pitch in scales, very similarly to the keys of a piano.

The high noise component of the wood block transforms itself - over the intermediate stage of the temple block - into the definite pitch of the marimba, which with the vibraphone looses overtones and inharmonicities and with the bowed tone finally becomes similar to the relatively pure sine wave of the flute's tone.