Strings
This item gently rubs across strings to produce a smooth sound.
What is a bow?
This is an example of a percussion instrument.
(answers vary)
Squidward plays me.
What is a clarinet?
The first Brass instrument.
What is a conch shell?
Electronic instruments produce sounds using this.
What is electricity?
Small notches that, when turned, alter the pitch of string instruments.
What are tuning pegs?
These unpitched drums are native to Japan and are played with large sticks.
What are Taiko drums?
A small piece of wood that vibrates against the mouthpiece.
What is a reed?
These are buttons pressed on a brass instrument to alter pitches.
What are valves?
This instrument is designed to mimic human speech.
What is a vocoder?
The number of strings on a guitar.
What is six?
The two subcategories of percussion instruments.
What are pitched and unpitched?
This instrument looks like a brass instrument but is actually a woodwind instrument.
What is a saxophone?
This Brass instrument with no valves is used frequently in military calls.
What is a bugle?
What is an otomatone?
What is a cello?
A percussion instrument is anything that can be played these three ways (must list all three)
What are shaking, striking, and scraping?
The highest pitched woodwind instrument.
The original name for a trombone.
What is a sackbut?
The first electronic instrument.
What is the Denis D'Or?
This instrument is exclusively used in Mariachi music. (2 possible answers)
What is a guitarron?
OR
What is a vihuela?
Beatbox for the class and earn your team 500 points!
(beatboxing)
This instrument uses two reeds. (2 possible answers)
What is a bassoon?
OR
What is an oboe?
A series of different pitches that brass musicians can play by adjusting the speed of their air.
What are overtones?
OR
What are partials?
Who is Robert Moog?