Marimba (disambiguation)
# Marimba (disambiguation)

A marimba is a xylophone-like percussion instrument played with mallets.

Marimba may also refer to:

## Instruments

* Glass marimba, a type of idiophone also known as a vitrephone or crystallophone
* Marimba (lamellophone), a plucked box instrument also known as the marímbula
* Marimba Lumina, a MIDI controller that lets a musician play music via a control surface based on the layout of a marimba
* Marimbaphone, a tuned percussion instrument similar to the marimba, which can also be played with a bow
* Marimba-xylophone, another name for xylorimba, a pitched percussion instrument corresponding to a xylophone with an extended range

## People

### Individuals

* Marimba Ani, anthropologist and African Studies scholar
* Marimba Roney (born 1976), Swedish journalist and television host

### Groups

* Baja Marimba Band, American band of the 1960s and early 1970s
* Classical Marimba League, international organization dedicated to the advancement of the marimba
* Cuban Marimba Band, Tanzanian big band active from 1948 into the 1960s
* Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens, American musical group active from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s

### Other

* Queen Marimba, African folk hero

## Science

* Leucanopsis marimba, a moth of the family Erebidae found in Venezuela
* Marginella marimba, a species of sea snail found off Angola

## Other uses

* Marimba, Angola, a municipality in Malanje Province
* Marimba, Inc., a former provider of configuration management software, bought by BMC Software in 2004
