Strings
Percussion
Brass
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How string players make sound on their instrument.
What is a pluck, bow, or pick?
100
How percussionists make sounds on their instruments.
What is hitting it with their hands, sticks, or mallets?
100
Players press these to change pitch on a brass instrument.
What is the valves?
100
The only woodwind instrument to made of brass.
What is the saxophone?
100
Your favorite instrument and why.
What is (accept any instrument and viable reason)?
200
The stick with horsehair used to play the strings is called this.
What is the bow?
200
T or F: Anything that makes sound can be a percussion instrument.
What is true?
200
This is where the sound comes out of a brass instrument.
What is the bell?
200
The wooden part of the mouthpiece that vibrates to make sound.
What is the reed?
200
How a brass player creates sound on their instrument.
What is buzzing his/her lips?
300
The lowest string instrument.
What is the bass?
300
Where percussionists in the orchestra sit on the stage.
What is standing in the back?
300
The lowest sounding brass instrument.
What is the tuba?
300
The instrument that used to be made of wood, but now is often made of silver.
What is the flute?
300
What most string instruments are made of.
What is wood?
400
The highest string instrument.
What is the violin?
400
A group of drums and cymbals played by one person is called this.
What is a drumset?
400
The highest sounding brass instrument.
What is the trumpet?
400
The highest sounding woodwind instrument.
What is the piccolo (or flute)?
400
Two woodwind instruments with double reeds.
What is the oboe and bassoon?
500
The first chair violin is also called this.
What is the concert master?
500
The most important job percussionists have in a marching band.
What is keeping a steady beat?
500
The name of the brass instrument that uses a slide to change pitches.
What is the trombone?
500
The lowest sounding woodwind instrument.
What is the bassoon?
500
The families of percussion instruments (4).
What is skins, shakers/scrapers, metals, and woods?
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