Balafon marimba ensemble music, videos, stats, and photos. Basic guide to mallet instruments kt percussion ensemble. The balafon is a gourdresonated xylophone, a type of struck idiophone. Performing on homemade instruments, the group roars with a highlypercussive intensity. The second highlights its dance melody inspired by old musical themes from the 90s. Check out balafon marimba ensemble by balafon marimba ensemble on amazon music.
Balafon west african dance ensemble, pittsburgh, pa. The five men and three women of the oregonbased balafon marimba ensemble take a high energy, multilayered, approach to the music of africa and the. A balafon can be either fixedkey where the keys are strung over a fixed frame, usually with calabash resonators underneath or free key where the keys are placed independently on any padded surface. The first is somewhat darker with a progressive touch. Young adepts are trained not on the sacred instrument, but on freekey pit balafons. The marimba is a percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars struck with yarn or.
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