Fun Facts
Brass
Woodwinds
Percussion
General Music
100

The most loved elective course among high schoolers.

What is band?

100

The mouth movement required to play a brass instrument.

What is buzzing?

100

Wood piece placed on the mouthpiece of some woodwinds.

What is a reed?

100

The defining quality of a percussion instrument.

What is hit, shaken, scraped, or rubbed?

100

The number of 8th notes with in a whole note.

What is 8?

200

The most popular instrument world wide.

What is a guitar?

200

Hardest brass instrument to play.

What is a French Horn?

200

Softest instrument in concert band.

What is a clarinet?

200

The name of the stick used to play pitched percussion instruments.

What is a mallet?

200

The music term Forte.

What is loud?

300

The composer that incorporated real cannons into a piece.

Who was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?

300

The most popular brass instrument.

What is a Trumpet?

300

The most popular woodwind instrument.

What is a saxophone?

300

The reason percussion is so important.

What is to keep tempo/rhythm?

300

Music term for long and connected.

What is Legato?

400
The amount of members in the largest Symphonic Band.

What is 8,573? (Venezuela's El Sistema).

400

Smallest brass instrument.

What is a piccolo trumpet?

400

The oldest instrument.

What is a flute? (40,000 year old bone flute).

400

The Latin term that the word percussion comes from.

What is percussion? (To beat).

400

The place music theory originated.

What is Greece?

500

The largest instrument worldwide.

 The Great Stalacpipe Organ (spans 3.5 acres of the cave).

500

The reason brass instruments were originally created.

What is to communicate over long distances? (For military communication).

500

The largest woodwind.

What is a contrabassoon?

500

The number of percussion instruments that exist.

What is at least 500?

500

Slowest tempo.

What is grave?

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