The Big Sandy High School Band shows off the new Yamaha Marimba, purchased with a grant for the music department.
The Big Sandy Music Department received funds from the Big Sandy Education Foundation to purchase a Yamaha Marimba for the percussion section.
The marimba is an instrument made out of wood that resembles a piano. It has a row of wooden bars along the bottom where the "white" keys would be on a piano and the row above them would be the "black" keys on a piano.
Instead of playing it with ten fingers, it is played with two to four mallets. Once the bar is struck with a mallet, the sound travels through the pipes that are hanging underneath to make it resonate louder. This instrument will add a ne...
