Guatemalan musical instruments

The marimba ( ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the marimba has a lower range. Typically, the bars of a marimba are arranged chromatically, like the keys of a piano. The marimba is a type of idiophone.

350px|right|thumb|A drawing from the 16th century Florentine Codex showing a One Flower ceremony with a teponaztli (foreground) and a [[huehuetl (background).]] thumb|This is a type of teponaztli made out of a turtle shell or ayotapalcatl A teponaztli is a type of slit drum used in central Mexico by the Aztecs and related cultures.

thumb|The chirimía on the left is from Jacaltenango, Guatemala, and the one on the right is from Antigua, Guatemala.