Strings
This type of harmonic involves the use of two fingers to manipulate the nodes of the string.
What are artificial harmonics?
This woodwind instrument does not use a reed.
What is the Flute?
This is the fundamental pitch of the trombone.
What is Bb?
The generic name for mallets, sticks, or hands
What is a beater?
What is a2?
This part of the violin bow is connected to the screw is named the same as an animal.
What is the frog?
This is the type of reed that oboes and bassoons use.
What are double reeds?
This mechanism is how natural horns would change their keys prior to the invention of valves.
Crooks
This percussion instrument is often played in sets of four and is tuned by foot petals.
What are Timpani?
This is the type of articulation that only articulates the first pitch then lets the breath continue to change pitch.
What is a slur?
This marking means to play near the bridge in Italian.
The Alto Saxophone is transposed to this key.
What is Eb?
This brass instrument is commonly written non-transposing in bass clef or transposing in treble clef.
This percussion instrument is often used to accentuate a crescendo but is incapable of a diminuendo.
What is a suspended cymbal?
This instrument does exceptionally well at playing niente.
What is the Clarinet?
This is the term used to describe when a string instrument strikes two strings at once.
What is a double-stop?
This is name for the lowest register of the clarinet.
What is chalumeau?
This technique is useful in performing glissandos.
This percussion instrument can be made of wood, metal, or glass and is often substituted with the mark tree.
What are wind chimes?
This percussion instrument sometimes has a mechanism attached that can simulate vibrato.
What is a vibraphone?
This style of articulation on a string instrument is sometimes referred to by the composer who first utilized it.
Transposition allows the clarinet and saxophone families to have this across all of their instruments.
This is how many horns in F I would need if I wanted to balance with 2 trumpets.
What are 4?
This instrument was shaped after a donkey's jawbone with some the original instruments including the donkey's teeth.
What is the vibraslap?
This is the largest distance a trombone can play a glissando while using an F attachment.
What is a Perfect 4th?