Woodwinds
Woodwind instruments are made out of this material.
What is wood?
Brass instruments are made out of this material.
What is metal?
In order to be in the string family, an instrument must have this.
What is strings?
This instrument is called its name because of its shape.
What is the triangle?
This family is the largest and sits in front of the orchestra.
What is the string family?
True or False - The clarinet is a part of the woodwind family.
What is a True?
Brass instruments produce their sound by doing this.
What is buzzing your lips?
This instrument is the highest instrument in the String family.
What is the violin?
Name three ways that percussion instruments can be played.
What is hit, scrape, or shake?
This family has many different instruments and sits in the back of the orchestra.
What is the percussion family?
What is a bassoon?
This instrument is the lowest in the Brass family.
What is the tuba?
This instrument is the lowest string instrument.
What is the string or double bass?
This instrument is the largest drum and can play a steady beat.
What is a bass drum?
This family is made out of metal and can be the loudest family.
What is the brass family?
This instrument used to be made out of wood, but now is made out of metal.
What is an flute?
This instrument does not have valves to change notes, but a slide that goes in and out.
What is a trombone?
This string instrument has to be played sitting down.
What is a cello?
This instrument can play melodies by playing different pitches.
What is a xylophone?
The person who writes the music for the orchestra.
Who is the composer?
This instrument might belong in the brass family, but because it uses a reed, it belongs in the woodwind family.
What is the Saxophone?
True or False - The saxophone is part of the brass family.
False
This string instrument does not look like the other string instruments and has 49 strings that can be played high to low.
What is the harp?
This drum can produce many different pitches. It looks like a metal pot with a drumhead.
What is timpani?
This person stands in front of the orchestra and makes sure that everyone stays together
Who is the conductor?