Instrument Parts
The part made of wood and horse hair that is used by the right hand to pull across the string to make a vibration and produce sound.
What is the bow?
The symbol that has five lines and four spaces where notes are placed.
What is a staff?
The thumb of the bow hold is bent in this direction.
What is out?
This the first note of the D-Major Scale.
What is the D note?
The first open string that you played in your music book in the beginning of the year.
What is D string?
This is the part of the instrument that holds up the strings and it is a light colored piece of wood.
What is the bridge?
This note is worth one beat of sound and is drawn with a darkened note head and a stem.
What is a quarter note?
This animal is formed when a correct bow hold is made with the right hand.
What is a bunny?
This is the 3rd note of the D-Major Scale.
What is F#?
This was the second string you played on using the book in the beginning of the year.
What is the A string?
These parts adjust the tightness of the strings and should not be touched unless you know how because you could break a string.
What are pegs?
This symbol indicates one beat of silence.
What is a quarter rest?
For violins the pinky is placed on this part of the bow.
What is the stick?
This is the seventh note of the D-Major Scale?
What is C#?
In the beginning of the year we learned the "ANT" song where the violins and basses started the song using this first open string.
What is the E string?
This part is on the end of the instrument for violins and violas and its function is to hold the tailpiece on by the tailgut wire.
What is the end button?
This is the symbol that separates the staff into measures.
What is a bar line?
The middle finger and ring finger of the right hand are placed on this part of the bow.
What is the frog?
This is the fifth note in a D-Major Scale.
What is A?
In the beginning of the year we learned the "ANT" song where the violas and cellos played this last open string of the song.
What is the C string for the word China?
This part on the cellos and basses adjusts at the end of the instrument to allow different size people to play the instrument.
What is the end pin?
This symbol indicates the end of the piece of music.
What is the Double Bar Line?
Violins and violas have the right hand leaning slightly toward this one finger.
What is the pointer finger or index finger?
This is the 7th note in the D-Major Scale.
What is C#?
These strings letter names make up all the notes used to play the "ANT" song in strings class.
What is E, A, D, G, and C?