The Quiz: The marimba is a member of what instrument family?
Percussion
Strings
Brass
Woodwinds
The marimba is a wooden instrument similar to a xylophone that produces sound when its bars are hit with mallets. Invented in 1850 by the Mexican musician Manuel Bolan Cruz, the marimba qualifies as a percussion instrument due to its sound being produced by the physical percussive strikes of the mallet. Other instrumental families include brass, woodwind, and string.
The correct answer to this quiz is Percussion.