String Family
Brass Family
Woodwind Family
Percussion Family
Miscellaneous
100
This is the smallest member of the string family.
What is violin?
100
This is the smallest of the brass family as well as the most popular brass instrument.
What is the trumpet?
100
This instrument is usually long and silver and needs no reed.
What is the flute?
100
This is the most popular percussion instrument and it has snares on the bottom of it.
What is the snare drum?
100
This is the person who stands in front of the orchestra and directs the musicians.
What is the conductor?
200
The instrument that is just 2 inches larger than the violin.
What is the viola?
200
This brass instrument is the only one with a slide and it does not have any valves.
What is the trombone?
200
This instrument looks like it belongs in the brass family but belongs in the woodwind family.
What is the saxophone?
200
These percussion instruments usually come in pairs and their sound is produced by shaking them.
What are maracas?
200
This is held by the conductor and is used to help conduct the orchestra.
What is a baton?
300
You will need to stand up to play this string instrument or sit on a very high stool.
What is the double bass?
300
This brass instrument is the largest and lowest of the family.
What is the tuba?
300
These 2 woodwind instruments are both long and black but one uses a single reed and the other one uses a double reed.
What are the clarinet and the oboe?
300
The nickname for this percussion instrument is kettle drum.
What is a timpani?
300
Although this family has the fewest musicians playing, it has the most instruments.
What is the percussion?
400
You will need to sit in a chair to play this instrument.
What is the cello?
400
This brass instrument was used long ago when men were hunting.
What is the French Horn?
400
Not only is this instrument the highest in the woodwind family, it is the highest in the entire orchestra.
What is the piccolo?
400
The 2 categories of percussion instruments.
What is pitched and unpitched (non-pitched)?
400
The two families seated at or near the back of the orchestra.
What are the brass and percussion families?
500
This instrument has 47 strings and 7 pedals.
What is the harp?
500
John Phillip Sousa invented this instrument to take the place of a tuba in a marching band.
What is the sousaphone?
500
Not only is this instrument the lowest in the woodwind family, it is the lowest instrument in the entire orchestra.
What is the contrabassoon?
500
This instrument is thought by many to be in the string family but is actually in the percussion family.
What is the piano?
500
This family is in the orchestra but not in the band.
What is the string family?