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Marimba

The marimba is a kind of Central American xylophone that is a descendant of the African balafon. Musicians in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, rearranged the balafon’s wooden bars and developed the marimba, which has a particularly broad range of tones.

COUNTRY: Guatemala
KEY GENRES: Guatemalan Marimba

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