单词 | marimbula |
释义 | marimbulan. A large variety of lamellaphone with a wooden box resonator, used as a bass instrument in some Caribbean popular music, esp. in Cuba and Puerto Rico. Cf. marimba n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > other musical instruments > [noun] > sansa ambira1625 marimba1856 sansa1864 marimbula1931 likembe1948 mbira1948 thumb piano1952 lamellophone1953 rumba box1953 kalimba1968 1931 Morning Call (New Jersey) 13 Feb. 21/3 Lopez..has added a new instrument to his orchestra's complement. It's a Cuban marimbula. The player plucks thin slabs of steel and what weird sounds he gets. 1964 S. Marcuse Musical Instruments (1975) 331/2 Marimbula, Afro-Cuban sansa with a variable number of short lamellae on a large resonator provided with a soundhole. 1984 New Grove Dict. Musical Instruments II. 617/1 Small marímbulas similar in size to the African mbira are occasionally seen in the outskirts of Havanna and in Matanzas Province. 1988 P. Manuel Pop. Musics Non-Western World (1990) ii. 43 Some groups also incorporated a Cuban-style marimbula (Dominican marimba) as a bass instrument. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1931 |
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