Woodwinds
Brass
Strings
Percussion
Wild Card
100
Name a double reed instrument.
Oboe, English horn, bassoon, or contra bassoon
100
How many main types of instruments make up the brass section?
4 (trumpet, French horn, trombone, tuba)
100
What is the highest string instrument?
The violin
100
What instrument belongs in this family even though it has 88 strings?
The piano
100
All sound is made when something v___________.
Vibrates
200
Name a single reed instrument.
Clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone
200
Which brass instrument is the only one that does not use valves to change notes?
Trombone
200
What instrument in the string family has 47 strings, and looks nothing like the others?
The harp
200
What percussion instrument must be played with all of your limbs?
Drum set
200
Even though rests don't make noise, do they still have beats that we count?
Yes! Just like the 'moment of silence' at the beginning of our day
300
What two instruments in this family do not use a reed?
Flute and piccolo
300
You make sound on brass instruments by doing this with your lips.
Buzzing
300
The violin can be played in Irish music, and is often called by another name...what is it?
The fiddle
300
Name an instrument from this family that is both shaken and hit.
Tamborine
300
What is the leader of the orchestra called?
Conductor
400
What do you call buttons on a woodwind instrument?
Keys
400
What are the buttons on brass instruments called?
Valves
400
The violin, viola, cello, and bass pull a stick over the strings to make nose. What is this stick called?
A bow
400
This instrument is two circles of metal that are crashed together to make sound.
Cymbals
400
What vibrates in your throat to make your voice work?
Vocal cords
500
What is the highest woodwind instrument?
Piccolo
500
What is the lowest brass instrument?
Tuba
500
What instrument is in the string family, but is usually found more often in a band than an orchestra?
The guitar
500
A percussion instrument is anything that can be shaken, scraped, or ___________.
Hit/struck
500
What is it called when two people sing together?
A duet
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