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Manfred Kaufmann
California Percussion
Equilibrium
Mark Yancich Educational
Professional Percussion Products |
Multiple Five Octave Instruments In Stock, Immediately Available for Testing, Ordering, and Purchase.
One Marimba ... comes with a standard warranty that includes one year of free bar exchanges and one free retuning within 2 years.
One Marimba ... offers custom bar voicing.
They shape and assemble every bar, resonator, keyboard and frame carefully by hand, and the instruments are backed with the best warranty found and outstanding customer service.
Marimba One Frames
Marimba One offers a soloist wood frame, created to your height choice, and an adjustable height metal frame suitable for multiple musicians. Both frame styles are available in cherry and mahogany woods.
Woods
The soloist and adjustable height frames are available in either cherry or rich mahogany woods.
Range
Keyboard ranges include a 5-1/2 Octave (C2 to F7), 5 Octave, 4-1/2 Octave (low E), 4-1/3 Octave (low A), and a 3 Octave Bass.
Innovative design is evident in every Marimba One instrument. The unique cleat spring allows for easy adjustment of the cord tension without adjusting the knot in the cord. (Slack is eliminated by wrapping extra loops of cord around the cleat built into the spring.)
Sway bars brace the rails and stabilize the keyboard, while allowing vertical adjustment of the resonators for tuning. All of our sway bar pieces are felted to prevent buzzing.
Marimba One tests each wood piece of their soloist frames for perfect integration. The center wooden support rail fits neatly into the end bars, attractively stabilizing the length of the marimba. Keyhole locks and the spring-loaded center bar help make for a smooth assembly.
Adjustable Height Frames
The marimba is raised and lowered by the use of a silent easy-to-use system on both frame ends. A tape measurer is built-in to each end-frame for precise, level playing height adjustment.
Bars and Keyboard
Keyboard ranges include a 5-1/2 Octave (C2 to F7), 5 Octave, 4-1/2 Octave (low E) and a 4-1/3 Octave (low A). The traditional Marimba One keyboard has a bright and cutting upper end, an even, balanced middle section, and a strong, dark bass end. Each instrument can be voiced to your specifications!
The solo, or traditionally voiced keyboard, has a bright and cutting upper end, an even and balanced middle section, and a dark strong bass end. Customizations might include an extra bright upper end, or perhaps a very dark sounding bass end.
With a customer's specific voicing request in hand, the factory selects from an inventory of over 30 sets of 5-octave bars. Even though all middle C's are tuned the same, each bar will have qualitative differences that speak of their own sound. Marimba One balances all of the bars on the marimba so they interact in a unified, cohesive, and very musical fashion. Only Marimba One's voicing strategy is the best way to make the marimba your own personal instrument.
Resonators are built from a heavy gauge yet lightweight aluminum, colored in either black, burgundy, or gold. Resonators are pre-tuned to either A440, A442, or A443, to precisely match the frequency of the bars.
13 different diameters of tubing are used on the 5-octave marimbas to enhance the evenness and balance of the keyboard.
Marimba One 4000 Series
Featuring a Quick Cam Spring Assist, the 4000 makes it an easy lift and snap to adjust to any performer's height.
The base model 4000 marimba comes with the traditional Marimba One keyboard: a bright and clear upper end, an even balanced middle section, and a deep, strong bass. Our Enhanced Traditional Keyboard is also available as an upgrade option.
Both headboards of the 4000 marimba are spring loaded for ease in raising and lowering, and the four posts are held in place by a cam lever. To raise the marimba height, you simply release the cam levers, smoothly lift the spring-loaded headboard to the chosen height, and then close the cam levers. To lower, again release the cam levers, push the headboard down, and reclose the levers. Each post has an integrated tape measure to ensure uniform height across the marimba.
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Cases - Professional Percussion Products Stocks Marimba One Cases for All Five Octave Instruments.
These durable and road worthy cases are made with Cordura on the outside and either ripstop nylon or Cordura on the inside. For padding, both 1/2" and 1/4" dense foam is used as shock absorption material. All of the cases have leather handles.
Case sets accommodate both the soloist and adjustable frame instruments. A standard Marimba Case set includes eight matching cases. Professional Percussion Products STOCKS these case sets.
Contact us if you are interested in purchasing a marimba at one of these upcoming events!
Telephone: 440-877-9674
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Innovative Design
Soloist Frames
The adjustable frames have just over 4 inches of height adjustment: the height of the natural keys can range from 34" to 38 1/4" from the floor. This frame's easy assembly and flexibility are ideal for school and university use... or anyone who is intrigued by its contemporary design, facile transport, and extreme stability.
Available also is voicing for an orchestral or ensemble setting, selecting bars that are more powerful, and which will easily cut through the sound of the other instruments without having to over-play the marimba.
Resonators
This spring, Marimba One presents a new height adjustable concert marimba - the 4000 Series.
The new Quick Cam Spring Assist
The three largest cases (for the resonators and rail/center support pieces) are designed for one person to carry, with shoulder strap and a handle on the side; or two people to carry, with handles on each extreme end.