Woodwinds
The smallest and highest main instrument of the woodwind family (and it's not made of wood).
What is the flute?
The highest brass instrument, it has three valves and can play very high notes.
What is the trumpet?
This is the highest, smallest, and most common member of the string family.
What is the violin?
What is a drum?
What is a recorder?
This instrument is also made out of metal, and the most common form of it plays alto notes. It is used often in jazz music.
What is the saxophone?
This brass instrument is the only one played with a slide instead of valves or pistons.
What is trombone?
You have to sit with this instrument to play it.
What is cello?
This metal percussion instrument is seen in a shape with three sides.
What is the triangle?
While you use drumsticks to play most drums, you use these to play on most barred instruments (like the xylophone).
What are mallets?
This instrument has a wide range, but generally plays soprano or alto notes, is made typically of wood, and uses a single reed.
What is the clarinet?
This brass instrument is one of the largest and plays some of the lowest notes of any instrument in any family.
What is the tuba?
This is the lowest instrument in the string family, and one of the lowest in the entire orchestra.
What is the (double) bass?
Percussion instruments make sound these three ways.
What is when they are struck (hit), scraped, and shaken?
This is a smaller version of a flute and it plays very very high notes.
What is a piccolo?
This instrument is not very common, plays similar notes to the flute, and has been used before to portray the voice of a duck in orchestral pieces.
If all of the tubing of this instrument were unraveled and laid out end to end, it would be the longest instrument in the brass family.
What is the French horn?
This enormous string instrument plays both very high and very low notes and there is usually only one in the orchestra.
What is harp?
What is the glockenspiel?
Both the bassoon and oboe play with double reeds, but these two woodwinds play with single reeds.
What are saxophone and clarinet?
The largest & lowest instrument of the woodwind family, which requires a bocal and a double reed in order to be played.
What is the bassoon?
This is a less known brass instrument, and it used to be played in both treble clef and bass clef (although it plays the same notes and can use the same mouthpiece as a trombone).
What is the baritone (euphonium)?
Slightly larger than the violin (but similar looking), this instrument plays notes in the orchestra in the alto voice.
What is the viola?
This instrument is primarily known as a percussion instrument, even though it has strings inside of it.
What is the piano?
This is the most commonly used brass instrument in jazz music.
What is the trumpet?