Woodwind
Brass
Strings
Percussion
Keyboard
100

A high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed and across which the breath is blown.

What is the flute?
100

A brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares.

What is the bugle?
100

Bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow.

What is the violin?
100

A percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle.

What is a triangle?
100

A keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds.

What is the piano?
200

A single-reed instrument with a straight tube.

What is the clarinet?
200

The lowest brass wind instrument.

What is the tuba?
200

A chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers.

What is the harp?
200

A percussion instrument consisting of a concave brass disk; makes a loud crashing sound when hit with a drumstick or when two are struck together.

What is the cymbals?
200

An electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments.

What is the synthesizer?
300

A single-reed woodwind with a conical bore.

What is the saxophone?
300

A brass instrument consisting of a long tube whose length can be varied by a U-shaped slide.

What is the trombone?
300

A stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking.

What is the guitar?
300

A musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end.

What is the drum?
300

Wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard.

What is the organ?
400

A slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece.

What is the oboe?
400

A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves.

What is the trumpet?
400

A large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing.

What is the cello?
400

A percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick.

What is the gong?
400

A musical instrument played by striking a row of wooden bars of graduated length with one or more small wooden or plastic mallets.

What is the xylophone?
500

A double-reed woodwind instrument having a long U-shaped conical tube connected to the mouthpiece by a thin metal tube and a usual range two octaves lower than that of the oboe.

What is the bassoon?
500

A valved brass musical instrument of tenor pitch, resembling a small tuba.

What is the Euphonium?
500

A musical instrument of the string family that is intermediate in size and compass between the violin and cello and is tuned a fifth below the violin.

What is the viola?
500

A set of two or more kettledrums played by one performer in an orchestra or band. 

What is the timpani?
500

Percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars struck with mallets called knobs to produce musical tones. Resonators or pipes suspended underneath the bars amplify their sound.

What is the marimba?
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