Instruments of the Orchestra
The number of instrument families in an orchestra
What is FOUR?
These are the THREE sizes of African Drums you can find in our music room.
What are SMALL, MEDIUM and LARGE?
The Pine Hill Music room has a window that faces this playground.
What is the BACK playground?
The Ukulele has THIS number of strings.
What is FOUR?
This upper grade teacher has a music degree from Wellesley College.
Who is Ms. Lundquist?
The name of TWO of the instrument families
What is Strings, Woodwind, Percussion, or Brass?
TRUE or FALSE: the cowbell plays the rhythm during drumming Ensemble #1.
FALSE. The cowbell plays the BEAT during Ensemble 1.
TRUE or FALSE: Mrs. Hodge does NOT have an interactive whiteboard in her classroom.
FALSE. Mrs. Hodge absolutely has an interactive whiteboard in her classroom!
When playing the ukulele, a musician uses THIS motion, which can move in a upward or a downward direction.
What is a STRUM?
This upper grade teacher, when she was young, dreamed of becoming an astronaut or an executive of a crayon company.
Who is Ms. Young?
This family creates sound by blowing air through a long looping tube.
What is the BRASS family?
This is the LARGEST African Drum you can find in our music classroom
What is the STANDING NGOMA?
Mrs. Hodge uses this LARGE percussion instrument to accompany some of the music lessons.
What is the PIANO?
This is the name of the circle opening in the center of the ukulele.
This upper grade teacher was on the UMass Intramural Flag Football team in 1999 (she thinks).
Who is Mrs. Santiano?
What are PERCUSSION and STRINGS?
This instrument is NOT one of our handheld instruments during African Drumming ensembles.
1. Tambourine
2. Shekere
3. Gongkogui
What is the TAMBOURINE?
This is the number of doors in the Music Room.
What is THREE?
TRUE or False:pressing on a string with your left hand will change the sound of that string to be HIGHER.
TRUE.
This upper grade teacher spent a summer in Costa Rica when she was in high school.
Who is Ms. Weiner?
In the percussion family, these are the THREE ways that you can make a sound.
What are SHAKE, STRIKE and SCRAPE?
This is the official name of the type of drums we play in the music room.
1. Tubattino
2. Tubano
3. Tubesock
What is a TUBANO?
The ukulele rack in the Music Room holds this many ukuleles.
What is 24?
This is one of the songs we played on the ukulele together:
1. Mary Had a Little Lamb
2. Mary Had a BIG Lamb
3. Maryann
What is Maryann?
This is the decade in which Pine Hill was built.
What are the 1950s? (The main building was built in 1959 with the library being added in the 1970s. The gym and K wing were added in the late 1990s).