Strings
String instruments make sound when their strings are this.
What is vibrated?
This is the material that most brass instruments are made of.
What is metal?
Woodwind players do this through or across the instrument to create sound.
What is blowing air?
This word means to "hit" something.
What is "strike?"
The violin is part of this instrument family.
What is the string family?
Musicians create sound on string instruments in these two ways.
What is plucking and bowing?
Brass players make sound by doing this with their lips into the instrument.
What is buzzing?
Woodwind instruments attach this little piece to their instrument to create sound.
What is a reed?
These are the three ways that percussion instruments make sound. (name all 3)
What are "struck, shaken, and scraped?"
The xylophone is part of this instrument family.
What is the percussion family?
The material that is pulled tightly across the bow and rubbed across the strings.
What is horsehair?
All brass instruments have a small circular attachment on their instrument that helps create the sound.
What is the mouthpiece?
This is the material that a woodwind reed is made of.
What is cane plant?
These kind of percussion instruments create specific musical notes (such as E, F, and G etc.).
What are pitched?
The trombone is part of this instrument family.
What is the brass family?
The material that most string instruments bodies are made of.
What is wood?
Most brass instruments have keys or valves to press when they make different notes. A trombone has this instead.
What is a slide?
Flutes and saxophones are made of this material.
What is metal?
These kind of percussion instruments do not create specific musical notes. They are for rhythm and sound effects.
What is unpitched?
The banjo is part of this family.
What is the strings family?
What is a viola?
This is the largest brass instrument.
What is the tuba?
Clarinets, oboes, and bassoons are made of this material.
What is wood?
Although it has strings, this instrument is actually a percussion instrument because it has small hammers that strike the strings inside it.
What is the piano?
The clarinet is part of this family.
What is the woodwind family?