Strings
Brass
Woodwind
Percussion
Potpourri
100
The smallest instrument of the orchestral strings
What is the Violin?
100
The vibration that produces sound on brass instruments
What is buzzing?
100
The two types of reed instruments
What are single and double reeds?
100
Percussion instruments that can play a melody
What are pitched percussion?
100
The leader of the orchestra
Who is the conductor?
200
The largest orchestral string instrument
What is the string bass?
200
The four instruments that make up the brass family
What are trumpet, french horn, trombone, and tuba?
200
The only non-reed woodwind
What is the flute
200
How percussion instruments produce sound
What is shaking, rubbing, hitting, and scraping?
200
The player who tunes the orchestra
Who is the concertmaster?
300
Playing by plucking the strings
What is pizzicato?
300
The smallest brass instrument
What is the trumpet
300
Holes that change the pitch of the instrument
What are keys?
300
an instrument that is played by hitting strings with a hammer
What is a piano?
300
An orchestral player who plays multiple instruments
What is a percussionist?
400
An instrument played by moving a slide
What is the trombone?
400
The lowest woodwind
What is the bassoon?
400
The two categories that all percussion instruments fall into
What is pitched and unpitched
400
The most powerful family that sits in the back of the orchestra
What is the brass family?
500
These strings have a special core and are wrapped in wire
What are gut strings?
500
Buttons that are pressed down to change the pitch of the instrument
What are valves?
500
The four instruments of the orchestral woodwinds
What are flute, clarinet, oboe, and bassoon?
500
Instruments that can't play a melody by themselves, but are pitched
What are chimes and boomwhackers?
500
A player who audition and was selected to be the section leader.
What is a principal player or 1st chair?
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