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Indians Reveal Music Secrets Of A Mexican Marimba
In Juarez Felipe Salvatti learns from Southern Mexican lodlane and natives how to craft a large marimba a primitive xylophone. He describes tuning the hand carved keys hollow tubes and a tiny cone shaped membrane hole that makes the instrument hum. Salvatti and his three sons perform with two mallets per hand totaling 16 hammers on the same instrument.
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