#marimba

keys sound like plywood

frames are heavy and miserable

worst rails EVER

four sticks, wrong notes

four friends, real close

bright ideas brought

and i levitate at the thought

Is this a niche instrument to play lol

There’s not scads to tell about entertainer Lawrence “Jack” Imel (1932-2017), and that’s because almost the entirety of his professional career, from 1957 until the end, was spent as an employee of The Lawrence Welk Show. But we’ll tell what we know. A native of Portland, Indiana, Imel learned to tap at age four, and picked up the marimba a few years later. He was in demand as a local…

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