Strings
This is the smallest instrument in this family, with the highest pitch.
What is a Violin?
This instrument is the largest brass instrument with the lowest pitch and is played in a symphony orchestra.
What is a Tuba?
This instrument is a smaller version of the flute.
What is a Piccolo?
This keyboard instrument was part of the Baroque Period where the strings are plucked instead of hammered.
What is the Harpsichord?
These types of percussion instruments make sound when they are hit.
This is the largest instrument in this family, with the lowest pitch.
What is a Double Bass?
This modern instrument is similar to the Sackbut from the Medieval Period.
What is a trombone?
This instrument is large, has a double reed and is in the oboe family.
What is a Bassoon?
Bach was famous for writing pieces for this loud keyboard instrument.
What is the Organ?
These types of percussion instruments make sound through the vibration of stretched skin.
What are Membranophones?
This is the instrument that Ms. Lynch plays and is the second largest.
What is a Cello?
This brass instrument is similar to the violin in the string family in pitch and size.
What is the trumpet?
This instrument has a single-reed and a long flared tube. The pitch range is low to high.
What is the Clarinet?
This keyboard instrument can come in Upright, Baby Grand, or Grand.
What is a Piano?
These are kettle drums usually made up of three drums with a deep pitch.
What are Timpani?
This instrument is slightly bigger than a violin and is played with a bow.
What is a Viola?
This instrument was used for hunting calls in British Fox Hunts.
What is the French Horn?
All of these instruments are Aerophones except which two?
What is the Flute and Piccollo?
This keyboard instrument is electric, but has a shorter keyboard than a piano.
What is the Electric Keyboard?
These make a huge clashing sound when hit together.
What are Cymbals?
These two instruments are typically not found in a symphony orchestra.
What is the Guitar and the Harp?
The brass family is called this because these instruments produce sound as the air is blown through them.
What are Aerophones?
What is the Cor Anglais, Bass Clarinet, or Contra Bassoon.
This instrument has pipes that the compressed air goes through to make sound.
What is the Pipe Organ?
These hollow gourds are filled with beans or beads and are played by being shaken.
What are Maracas?