How about marimba?
Here is a video of a Camille Saint-Saëns' violin fantasy entitled "Introduction & Rondo Capricioso" played on the marimba by Anne-Julie Caron, a young Canadian virtuoso. I had goose bumps when I listened to it today!
And the video with Joshua Bell, virtuoso violinist and current conductor of the Academy of Saint Martin-in- the Fields, playing the original written piece: