String Family
Brass Family
Woodwind Family
Percussion Family
Grab Bag
100
What is the highest sounding string instrument?
Violin
100
What is the largest and lowest sounding member of the brass family?
Tuba
100
Name a woodwind instrument that is NOT made of wood.
Flute, piccolo, saxophone and/or recorder
100
Which instrument has more keys than any other in the percussion family?
Piano
100
Sound is produced by striking, scraping or hitting the instruments in which family?
Percussion
200
Which string instrument is slightly larger and sounds a bit lower than the violin?
Viola
200
What is the smallest and highest sounding member of the brass family?
Trumpet
200
What is a single reed woodwind instrument?
Clarinet
200
Which instrument is made of wood bars?
Xylophone
200
What do we call the person in charge of the orchestra?
The conductor
300
What is the lowest sounding string instrument?
Bass
300
Which brass instrument has a slide?
Trombone
300
What is the smallest double reed instrument?
Oboe
300
What type of drums is a pitched percussion instrument?
Timpani
300
Which woodwind instrument is not usually in the orchestra?
Saxophone
400
Which string instrument is larger and sounds lower than the viola?
Cello
400
What is this instrument?
French Horn
400
Which woodwind instrument produces a sound by blowing across the mouthpiece?
Flute
400
What instrument is this?
Chimes
400
When an orchestra is tuning, which instrument does everyone get their pitch from?
Violin
500
Which string instrument has 47 strings?
Harp
500
Which clef does the trumpet read?
Treble
500
What is the lowest sounding woodwind in the orchestra?
Bassoon
500
What instrument is this?
Tamborine
500
Which instrument in the orchestra (besides percussion) is usually played standing up?
Bass