Percussion
One of the three origins of sound in the percussion family. Any object can become a percussion instrument by creating vibrations when you do this.
What is Hit?
This is the number of strings on a traditional acoustic or electric guitar.
What is 6?
The name of the action brass players do with their lips to send vibration into the mouthpiece of the brass instrument.
What is buzzing?
This instrument group's origin of sound is blowing fast air over an open hole to make the air itself vibrate. The player changes how long the vibration is by covering holes with their fingers.
What are flutes?
An instrument's origin of sound is where the sound _______ _______.
What is comes from?
One of the three origins of sound in the percussion family. Traditionally a container with beads, seeds, pebbles, or other small objects inside that create vibration.
What is Shaken?
This instrument has different sizes- very large with a different string for every note, and a handheld version with strings tuned to a certain chord.
What is the harp?
This brass instrument is the only one to not have any valves, and instead uses a slide.
What is a trombone?
This small piece of wood-like material is soaked in water to make it flexible. It is the origin of sound on a lot of woodwind instruments.
What is a Reed?
All sounds that we hear and feel come from this back and forth motion that instruments and voices make. 100 bonus points for spelling!
What is vibration?
One of the three origins of sound in the percussion family. Vibration is caused by hitting ridges, or repeated raised lines on a surface of the instrument.
What is Scraped?
Not a fish! This Italian word meaning "low" is in the name of two string instruments that share the names of their 4 strings.
What is Bass?
This is the end of the brass instrument that sound comes out of. Named after the round, open shape that spreads out the vibrations.
What is the bell?
This wooden single-reed instrument is traditionally colored black with silver keys
What is the clarinet?
This is the wiggly shape that vibration takes as it travels through the air and into our ears.
What are sound waves?
Any empty container with a thin layer on top that you hit called the "head"
What is a Drum?
This large group of musicians contains instruments from every family, but is mostly made of strings. The Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass, and Harp call this group home. 100 bonus points for spelling!
What is the Orchestra?
These are the "buttons" on a brass instrument that redirect the air through extra pipes to make the vibrations longer and notes lower
What are valves?
That's no brass instrument! This instrument is made of brass, but its wooden origin of sound makes it a woodwind.
What is a saxophone?
Small instruments create fast sound waves, which we hear as a _____ pitch.
A thin, round, hammered instrument that is either hit together or hit with a stick. The Zildjian company has been making these instruments using a secret family recipe since 1623. 100 bonus points for spelling!
What is a Cymbal?
This silly sentence uses the notes of the guitar strings as the first letters of every word to help guitar players remember how to tune their strings.
What is "Eddie Ate Dynamite Good Bye Eddie"?
This brown metal is mixed with zinc to make brass.
What is copper?
This unique-sounding group of woodwinds includes the oboe and bassoon. The thin "mouthpiece" isn't actually a mouthpiece but two thin pieces that are the namesake of this group.
What are the double reeds?
What is longer?