Editing Marimba (section)

===Ancient===
[[File:Women with Water-Pots, Listening to the Music of the Marimba, Sansa, and Pan’s Pipes.jpg|thumb|Marimba players in Africa]]
Instruments like the marimba are present throughout the entirety of [[Sub-Saharan Africa|sub-Saharan]] Africa.<ref>{{cite web|title=The origins of the Marimba:The birth of the marimba - Musical Instrument Guide - Yamaha Corporation|url=https://www.yamaha.com/en/musical_instrument_guide/marimba/structure/|access-date=2021-08-29|website=www.yamaha.com}}</ref> The instrument itself is most similar and shares its name with the marimbas of modern-day [[Angola]] and the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Nelo|first1=Manuel Neto Matos Osório|last2=Assunção Soares|first2=Armando|last3=Catarino|first3=Paula|date=2017|title=Etnomatemática da Marimba: instrumento etnográfico da provincia de Malanje em Angola|url=https://www.redalyc.org/journal/2740/274048277002/html/|journal=Revista Latinoamericana de Etnomatemática|language=pt|volume=10|issue=1|pages=6–20}}</ref> However, it is also similar to instruments that exist in [[West Africa]] such as the [[balafon]] of the [[Mandinka people]], known as [[gyil]] among the [[Gur people]]s in and around northern [[Ghana]] and [[Burkina Faso]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Jessup |first=Lynne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qsDOBwAAQBAJ&q=balafon&pg=PA6 |title=The Mandinka Balafon: An Introduction with Notation for Teaching |publisher=Art Path Press |year=1983 |isbn=978-0-916421-04-5 |pages=3}}</ref>