Strings
Name the family of any instrument you can pluck , strike or bow. The largest family in the orchestra.
What are string instruments?
Name the family of Any instrument you can strike, hit, shake or scratch
What are percussion instruments?
Name the family of any instrument made of brass that is played using a cup (circular) shaped mouthpiece. Brass is a type of metal (golden in color)
What are brass?
The instrument family name of any instrument that is played with a reed or blown across the mouthpiece. Has multiple buttons or valves to play and are very long typically.
What are woodwinds?
a group of musicians who play a variety of instruments together to create music
What is the orchestra?
This is the highest member of the string family, with 4 strings, a neck, body finger board and scroll. Usually played with a bow.
What is a Violin?
This is an instrument from Africa. It has an hourglass body, is hollow at the bottom and goat skin covers the top that you play
What is the djembe?
This is the highest member of the brass family. It produces sound by buzzing your lips through a cup shaped mouthpiece and changes notes using 3 valves. Typically played in mariachi bands
What is a trumpet?
The higher the instrument sound, the _______ the instrument size
What is the smaller
This is the lowest member of the string family, with 4 strings, a neck, body finger board and scroll. Usually played with a bow. It is so tall that the player has to stand to play it. You must buy an extra seat on a plane for it
What is the Double Bass?
These are large metal discs that can be played with sticks or by crashing two of them together.
What is a Cymbal?
This is one of the newest woodwind instruments, invented to bridge the gap between woodwind and brass instruments. It features a single reed and a large curved brass body.
What is the saxophone?
The bigger the instrument size, the __________ the sound?
What is lower?
This instrument is colorful and played in many songs in Hispanic culture
What is maracas?
The type of mouthpiece brass instruments have
What is a circular or cup mouthpiece?
This is the woodwind with the widest range. It features a single reed and has a mellow tone. Often featured in marching bands as well as the orchestra. The cat Ivan was played by this instrument. There are 11 different kinds.
What is the clarinet?
The name of the story we listened to where each character represented an instrument in the orchestra?
What is Peter and The Wolf?
String instruments when plucked or bowed make this sound. You too can make this sound
What is they vibrate?
These are very large, kettle shaped drums. They are usually played in a set of 2 or 4 and are the only drums that can play specific notes. In Peter and The Wolf, the hunters were played by this instrument.
What are the timpani?
The amount of buttons on a brass instrument. From ____ to _____.
What is 0-4 buttons ?
This is the largest and lowest woodwind instrument. It is made up of a bent piece of wood totaling 8 feet in length and played with a double reed. Peter's grandpa was played by this instrument.
What is a Bassoon?
This is the person in charge of keeping the orchestra together in tempo, dynamics, and expression.
What is the conductor?