Brass
Strings
Woodwinds
Percussion
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100
The common instruments in the brass family include the French horn, tuba, trombone, baritone horn, and this instrument.
What is the trumpet?
100
The violin, viola, cello, and double bass all have this many strings.
What is four?
100
This woodwind instrument is most famously played by Squidward Tentacles of the cartoon, Spongebob Squarepants.
What is the clarinet?
100
Drum sticks, mallets, and your hands all are examples of this device used to play percussion instruments.
What is a beater?
100
One way the ukulele, clarinet, and marimba are all alike is that they are primarily made out of this material.
What is wood?
200
Though the name would suggest otherwise, this brass instrument originally comes from Germany.
What is the French horn?
200
This stringed instrument often plays the bass parts in rock and jazz bands.
What is the bass guitar/electric bass?
200
This woodwind instrument is sometimes confused for a brass instrument due to being made of brass
.
What is the saxophone?
200
This instrument is made up of multiple drums and cymbals.
What is a drum set/kit?
200
The pipe organ belongs to this family of instruments.
What are woodwinds?
300
Brass instruments produce sound not by blowing through the instrument, but by doing this.
What is *blowing a raspberry*?
300
Originating from Hawaii is this small, strummed 4 stringed instrument.
What is the ukulele?
300
Though originally made from wood, this instrument is now commonly made of plastic.
What is the recorder?
300
The xylophone, marimba, and glockenspiel all use this type of beater.
What is a mallet?
300
This instrument family contains keyboard instruments such as the piano, harpsichord, and clavichord.
What are strings?
400
While modern brass instruments are made from brass or other metals, the oldest horns are made from these:
What are animal horns?
400
This type of music ensemble, which you may choose to be in next year, consists of violin, viola, cello, and double bass players.
What is an orchestra/string orchestra?
400
This double reed instrument is the lowest voice, or bass part, in a woodwind quintet.
What is the bassoon?
400
Bongos, congas, and boomwhackers all primarily use this as a beater.
What is a hand?
400
Musicians often use this device, which produces a steady clicking beat, to keep time when practicing.
What is a metronome?
500
Before the invention of valves, this instrument was used by military bands in place of the trumpet.
What is the bugle?
500
This medieval French instrument uses a hand-cranked wheel as a sort of "bow."
What is the hurdy gurdy?
500
Woodwind instruments produce their sound by pushing air over a sound hole or past one of these thin pieces of wood.
What is a reed?
500
Percussion instruments come in two main categories: unpitched, and this.
What is pitched?
500
The synthesizer, theremin, and otomatone are all examples of this family of instruments.
What are electronic instruments?