What's the difference between marimba and xylophone?
Marimba
Definition:
(n.) A musical istrument of percussion, consisting of bars yielding musical tones when struck.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moving into Honduras, with the sweet sounds of the Guatemalan marimbas floating in on the northerly breeze, we find Café Guancasco taking stock as the new century begins.
(2) Around the fringes, strolling mariachi, norteño and marimba bands compete to entertain cafe-goers, while in the centre, dancers gyrate to local danzón bands.
(3) Chaac, the Mayan water god, inspires the second slow movement of the work, full of liquid percussion, including slides upwards on timpani, low marimba sounds and the miraculous noise of the rain-stick.
Xylophone
Definition:
(n.) An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle.
(n.) An instrument to determine the vibrative properties of different kinds of wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) That’s the case at the Ice Music Festival in the Norwegian ski resort of Geilo, where even the instruments – harps, xylophones, guitars and trombones – are made of ice, bringing a wholly original atmosphere and sound.
(2) "And he actually said the same about us – that people were talking so much about Arcade Fire before he had heard or seen us that he was like: 'Oh goddamnit … why are these stupid bands doing stuff with xylophone?'
(3) Children as young as three begin with singing and xylophones.
(4) Nine different reactions of unconditioned agonistic behavior of golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus Waterhouse) which could be elicited by an air blow (UCS) were classically conditioned at a sound of a xylophone (tone g), a previously neutral stimulus.
(5) It’s a cosy thought: the word “poverty” is nothing more than lazy nomenclature, unfair shorthand for helpless, naked babies with swollen bellies and xylophonic ribs.
(6) The data, on which the analyses were based, were obtained using a force plate, a xylophone plate, electromyography and electrogoniometry.
(7) 8.24pm BST They're using sinister horror film xylophone to ramp up the sense of dread while Sue makes it clear that this is actually impossible to cook.
(8) Rodin's 'Thinker' with a xylophone of ribs and a gamine haircut.
(9) "Slapstick comedy, double entendres, an amazing cast and even a Corden xylophone solo amounts to staggering value for money and a proper old-fashioned giggle," declares its mighty Bizarre column.