Strings
Woodwinds
Brass
Percussion
Challenge
100
This string instrument is known for its glissandi and its pedals.
What is the harp?
100
This instrument is played by blowing across the mouthpiece.
What is the flute?
100
This instrument is the lowest voice in the brass family.
What is the tuba?
100
This percussion instrument makes sound when hammers hit strings inside of it.
What is the piano?
100
Sound is made by doing this.
What is vibrating?
200
This string instrument is usually played sitting down.
What is the cello?
200
This woodwind instrument is nearly 8 feet long, has the lowest voice, and has both keys and tone holes.
What is the bassoon?
200
This brass instrument is the only one to use a slide to change pitches.
What is the trombone?
200
These are the three ways percussion instruments make sound.
What is striking, shaking, and scraping?
200
This happens as instruments get bigger.
What is getting lower?
300
These two string instruments are often strummed.
What are the guitar and ukulele?
300
These are the two single reed instruments.
What are the clarinet and saxophone?
300
The brass family is separated into these two main categories.
What is the high brass and low brass?
300
This drum is the biggest drum in an ensemble.
What is the bass drum?
300
These vibrate when buzzing into a mouthpiece.
What are lips?
400
Name the four members of the viol- family.
What is violin, viola, cello and double bass?
400
The name for a group of the instrument which was popular in the 1600s.
What is a recorder consort?
400
This brass instrument was used to signal battles.
What is the trumpet?
400
Xylo means this.
What is wood?
400
What is the English Horn?
500
These are the three different ways to play string instruments?
What is plucking, strumming, and bowing?
500
This instrument tunes the orchestra to a concert A.
What is the oboe?
500
This is the prefix that means "well" in the well-sounding instrument.
What is "Eu"?
500
This percussion instrument uses a motor to spin fans and create a unique effect.
What is the vibraphone?
500
This harp technique is featured in this video and it means this.
What is a glissando (to glide)?
600
Pizzicato is an Italian word that means this.
What is to pluck the strings?
600
This is the difference between a single reed and a double reed.
What is 1vs2 pieces of wood?
600
This brass instrument is found in a woodwind quintet.
What is the French Horn?
600
Name 5 auxiliary percussion instruments.
Sleigh bells, maracas, claves, tambourine, guiro, triangle, egg shaker, vibraslap, cowbell, etc.
600
The three instruments in this trio.
What are the flute, clarinet, and bassoon?