If you take four slabs of wood, each the size of, say, a coffin lid, and cushion each one atop a wooden resonance chamber as large as a piano cabinet, what you end up with may look like a carpenter’s ...

MCK Special School for the Deaf’s marimba band teacher Mthokozisi Sibisi with pupils recently. Picture: Nigel Sibanda “I wish every child could learn how to play marimba music because it is good for ...

SAN ANTONIO – A Judson ISD music teacher is introducing students to a new sound. For weeks, Park Village Blended Learning Academy students have been learning how to play the marimba. “It got difficult ...

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A marimba-playing robot with four arms and eight sticks is writing and playing its own compositions in a lab in the USA. The pieces are generated using artificial intelligence and deep learning. A ...