Percussion instruments range from the balafon (marimba) to the calabash, but the celebrity drum is the djembe.
Men play the Marimba and perform profane chants while people sing, dance, eat and drink, and recount stories.
The potential market for Marimba is huge, and the company's technology is reckoned to be as good as anybody's.
When he plays high vibes and low marimba together, Harris dips his knees and extends his arms wide as wings.
Spend an afternoon wandering around the zocalo (main square) complete with an impressive bandstand that regularly hosts live marimba music.
He grew up as a rock drummer and has been hooked on percussion instruments ever since especially the marimba.
Instead, a eclectic mix of instruments are listed, like the glockenspiel, vibraphone, grand marimba, theremin, oboe, viola, banjo, trumpet, trombone, xylophone, piano, and autoharp.
The Grammy-winning Latin jazz ensemble Caribbean Jazz Project is led by vibraphonist and marimba player Dave Samuels, one of the leading percussionists of the day.
Two years ago she left, together with a couple of colleagues, to set up a Java-related company of their own, Marimba (named after the dance).
On the bandstand at the Kennedy Center Jazz Club, Stefon Harris' vibes run parallel to the edge of the stage and perpendicular to his marimba.
Within 48 hours he was in Aspen at one of John Doerr's executive summits, mingling with media darlings Steve Case of America Online and Kim Polese of Marimba.
Riding through the streets of the Condesa neighbourhood, for example, you encounter roving marimba players and the sweet potato vendor who pushes around a mobile oven with an ear-piercing steam whistle to herald his arrival.
But in late summer, for the five days of the Petronio Alvarez Pacific Music Festival, salsa takes a back seat to the diverse sounds of Colombian Pacific music like cumbia and currulao, and its cacophony of percussion instruments, like the marimba.
Shimon is an interactive marimba player.
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