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