Big and Brassy
The lowest orchestral instrument in the brass family.
What is the tuba?
A small piece of cane used on the mouthpieces of most woodwind instruments.
What is a reed?
The highest string instrument.
What is a violin?
Two categories of percussion instruments.
What is pitched and unpitched?
The person that "conducts" the orchestra and the name of the "stick" they use.
What is the conductor and baton?
The trombone has no valves, but uses this to change pitches.
What is a slide?
Two woodwind instruments that do not use a reed.
What are the flute and piccolo?
The lowest and largest string instrument which sits on the floor with a spike on the bottom.
What is the double bass?
The name of one PITCHED instrument.
What is xylophone or timpani?
Ms. Pagliuso's favourite instrument.
What is the clarinet?
Name the four brass instruments of the orchestra.
What are the tuba, trombone, french horn, and trumpet?
The instrumental group that the saxophone most commonly performs in.
What is jazz band?
This is used to play the string instruments and is often made from horsehair or nylon.
What is a bow?
Three things that percussion instruments can do.
What is can be hit, scraped and/or shaken
Large percussion instrument that usually stands vertically. It is often played with a large, soft mallet and produces a low, deep sound.
What is the bass drum?
The instrument that has the longest amount of tubing, allowing it to have the largest range in the brass family.
What is the french horn?
Two instruments played with a double reed.
What is bassoon and oboe?
Name all string instruments in the orchestra.
What are the violin, viola, cello, double bass, harp?
This spiraled, metal wire is mounted against the bottom drum head and helps to create this instrument's raspy sound.
What are snares?
Name three classroom instruments that are NOT in the orchestra.
What is the recorder, the ukulele, and the bucket drums.
The steps that your lips take to play high, medium and low notes on any brass instrument.
What are partials?
Name of the metal device used to hold in the reed of the clarinet and saxophone.
What is the ligature?
Two ways to play all string instruments.
What is plucking and bowing?
The method for tuning a timpani.
What is tightening or loosening the drum head using a pedal?
Explain why the piano and many keyboard instruments are considered part of the percussion family and NOT the string family (2 points).
What is 1) the piano uses a mechanism that strikes the strings when a key is pressed. 2) you do not physically touch the strings in a piano, like you would a string instrument?