Malimbe
{{Short description|Type of xylophone}}
{{For|the birds called Malimbe|Malimbus}} {{see also|Mbira|Marimba}}
The malimbe is a type of xylophone from the Congo{{cite book|title=A Companion to American Cultural History|date=March 2008|publisher=Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated|isbn=9780631235668|page=102|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lfypnXV-iH0C&q=malimbe+xylophone&pg=PA102|edition=1|editor=Karen Halttunen}} which is described as having both male and female counterparts; the former has 15 wooden bars, the latter has nine.{{cite web|title=Xylophone |url=https://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/pages/xylo_gnrl.html |work=Instrument Pages |publisher=University of Michigan |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010122319/http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/pages/xylo_gnrl.html |archivedate=October 10, 2008 }} "Malimbe" also refers to a lamellaphone or mbira type instrument amongst the Nyamwezi of Tanzania.{{cite web|last=Robinson|first=N. Scott|title=Mbira|url=http://www.nscottrobinson.com/mbira.php|work=World Music and Percussion|accessdate=14 November 2013|year=2004}}
References
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=Bibliography=
- Anderson, Lois. The Miko Modal System of Kiganda Xylophone Music. 2 vols. Phd Diss. UCLA, 1968.
- Galpin, Francis. A textbook of European musical instruments, their origin, history and character. (reprint) Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1976.
- Kaptain, Laurence. The wood that sings: the marimba in Chiapas, Mexico. Everett, Pa. : HoneyRock, 1992.
- Tracey, Hugh, 'A Case for the Name Mbira' in the African Music Society Journal, no. 3 (1964)
- Wiggins, Trevor and Joseph Kobom. Xylophone music from Ghana. Indiana, IN: White Cliffs Media, 1992.
- Warner Dietz, Betty and Olatunji, Michael Babatunde. (1965). Musical Instruments of Africa: Their Nature, Use, and Place in The Life of a Deeply Musical People. New York: John Day Company.
Category:Pitched percussion instruments
Category:Keyboard percussion instruments
Category:African musical instruments
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