Southern California Marimba puts on salons where you can hear the couch-sized instrument in all its glory.

At first, he says, he was hurt when his xylophone and marimba were stolen. But then at the library he had someone look up how to make a marimba, an African instrument that’s like a xylophone but has ...

"Everything we learn, we learn rote,” Peggy Carlson said, discussing how the Zimbabwean marimba groups she leads in Fairbanks learn each piece of music they play by memory. “There’s really very little ...