Families
String instruments use these to make a sound.
What are strings?
This is the piece you blow into to play a brass or woodwind instrument.
What is the mouthpiece?
What is gently?
The woodwind instrument that plays the highest pitch.
What is the flute?
What is the bow?
The trumpet is in this instrument family.
What is brass?
This piece of wood vibrates when you play some woodwind instruments.
What is a reed?
You go to this position when you need to be quiet.
What is rest position?
Smaller instruments can play these kinds of pitches.
What are higher pitches?
This is something you do NOT have to do to play a woodwind instrument.
The saxophone is in this family.
What is woodwind?
This is one part of the string instrument you do NOT touch.
What is the bridge, tuning pegs, fine tuners?
You must use this piece to keep the reed attached to the mouthpiece.
What is the ligature?
The woodwind instrument that plays the lowest pitch.
What is the bass clarinet?
The shape/position of your mouth when you play a woodwind or brass instrument.
What is embouchure?
The xylophone is in this family.
What is percussion?
Something ONLY the cello and bass have in common.
What is the end pin?
When there are people in front of you getting materials, you should make this.
What is a line?
Larger instruments play these kinds of pitches.
What are lower pitches?
The woodwind instrument you do NOT blow into is called this.
The piano is in this family.
What is strings?
Brass instruments use buttons to change the pitch called this.
What is good posture?
This instrument is like the violin but it can play lower pitches.
What is the viola?
When you use your tongue to separate the sound of your blowing.
What is articulation?