All members of the String Family have these.
(Hint: Some instruments have 4, while others can have 46 of these.
What are strings?
100
Instruments from this family are typically made from this metal.
(HINT: The family is named after it.)
What is brass?
100
The oboe is made out of this.
What is wood?
100
This instrument is a simple steel rod bent into the shape of it's name.
What is a triangle?
100
A flute does not have this, although other instruments in it's family does.
What is a reed?
200
This instrument is smaller than the viola.
What is a violin?
200
This instrument slides to change pitch instead of having valves.
What is a trombone?
200
This instrument has 8 feet of wooden tubing.
What is a bassoon?
200
Out of the three drums we talked about, this was on only one that could be pitched
What is a timpani?
200
Timpanis are sometimes called this.
What are kettledrums?
300
This is how many strings a violin, viola, cello, and bass have.
What is 4?
300
True or False
Brass instruments are the loudest instruments in an orchestra.
TRUE
300
The saxophone was invented in 1846, the same year as this.
What is the sewing machine?
300
The "snare" part of the Snare Drum is this.
What are the wires?
300
This instrument was the oboe's close friend.
What is the english horn?
400
These are three ways to play a violin.
What is bow, pluck, and strike?
400
These are 4 instruments from this family that we covered.
What are trumpets, trombones, french horns, and tubas?
400
This instrument uses a single reed.
What is a clarinet?
400
The metal tubes under the wooden bars of a xylophone are called this.
What are resonators?
400
Vibrating air though the instrument produces the sound in this instrument family.
What is the woodwind family?
500
This is where the sound comes from.
What is the vibration of the strings?
500
Like the woodwind family, brass players use their breath to produce sound, but intead of blowing into a reed, you vibrate your own lips by buzzing them against this.
What is the mouthpiece?
500
This is why the saxophone is apart of the woodwind family instead of the brass family.
Because it uses a reed.
500
The percussion family includes an instrument that produces sounds when it is this.