Grab Bag
Percussion
Strings
Brass
Woodwinds
100
Seated in two sections, there are more of these instruments than any other in the orchestra.
What is the violin?
100
An instrument in our classroom that you can shake or hit.
What is the tambourine.
100
This is the highest-sounding string instrument in the orchestra.
What is a violin?
100
You buzz your lips into a bell-shaped mouthpiece
What is how do you play brass instruments?
100
You hold this instrument sideways and blow over an open hole.
What is a flute?
200
Instruments in this family also include the balalaika, the pipa and the sitar.
What is the string family?
200
How you play a drum.
What is hit?
200
It can have up to 47 strings.
What is a harp?
200
A member of the brass family that has a slide instead of valves to change the pitch.
What is a trombone?
200
This can be found on the mouthpiece of a clarinet or a saxophone.
What is a single reed?
300
This instrument can have 6 or 12 strings.
What is the guitar?
300
An instrument with wooden bars that you hit with mallets.
What is a xylophone?
300
This has 6 strings and can be strummed or plucked, but never bowed.
What is a guitar?
300
The lowest instrument in the brass family, that would be 18 feet long if you "unwound" it.
What is the tuba?
300
This is what you blow into on an oboe or a bassoon.
What is a double reed?
400
The people who play the greatest variety and number of instruments in the orchestra.
What is the percussion player?
400
Don't be "blue"! This is a percussion instrument in our classroom that we can all tap together, rub or tap on the floor
What is rhythm sticks.
400
This has strings, but belongs in the percussion family.
What is a piano?
400
A member of the brass family that has it's tube wound more in a circle than in an oval.
What is the French Horn?
400
I want to play "Twinkle Twinkle", so I cover or uncover holes or buttons on the instrument.
What is how you change the pitch on a woodwind instrument?
500
A djembe, a shekere and an ieta are from this part of the world.
What is Africa?
500
This is a Latin American instrument that sometimes is painted like a fish and you rub the ridges to make a sound.
What is a guiro?
500
This is the largest and lowest string instrument in the orchestra.
What is a double bass.
500
An instrument made from an animal horn that is played by buzzing the lips.
What is a shofar?
500
Though it is made of brass, this instrument belongs in the woodwind family.
What is a saxophone?
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