Four-mallet grip was employed to play chords, enhancing interest for the instrument. Clair Omar Musser was a chief proponent of marimba in the United States at the time.įrench composer Darius Milhaud introduced marimbas into Western classical music with his 1947 Concerto for Marimba and Vibraphone. The marimbas were first used for light music and dance, such as vaudeville theater and comedy shows. Metal tubes were used as resonators, fine-tuned by rotating metal discs at the bottom lowest note tubes were U-shaped. Deagan and the Leedy Manufacturing Company adapted the Latin American instruments for use in Western music. In the United States, companies like J.C.
The name marimba was later applied to the orchestra instrument inspired by the Latin American model. In 1892, Mexican musician Corazón de Jesús Borras Moreno expanded marimba to include the chromatic scale by adding another row of sound bars, akin to black keys on the piano. In 1850, Mexican marimbist Manuel Bolán Cruz (1810-1863), modified the old bow marimba, by the wooden straight one, lengthening the legs so that the musicians could play in a standing mode, expanded the keyboard and replaced the gourd resonators by wooden boxes. Marimbas have become widely popular around the world being used throughout Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Central America. A marimba player on the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana during Mardi Gras.
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