Families
These instruments in this family are often gold in color
What is the Brass family.
You must strike or shake and instrument in this family
What is percussion.
This family of instruments can play Pizzicato
What is strings
Name 2 string instruments found in the orchestra.
What are violin, viola, cello, bass?
This instrument is often mistaken for a Brass Instrument
What is the Saxophone
The violin, viola, cello and bass belong to this family
What is the String family.
Name 2 ways to play a string instrument.
What is pluck, bow, strum, or pick.
Name the brass instrument that has a slide.
What is the trombone.
The flute belongs to this family
What is the Woodwind family.
This family of instruments often involves using a bow.
What is Strings.
What are the buttons called on a brass instrument that you push to get different notes?
What are valves.
Name one electronic instrument.
What is electric guitar, electric bass, or synthesizer
The saxophone belongs to this family
What is the Woodwind family
What is the wooden piece that you attach to the mouthpiece of a woodwind called?
What is a reed or double reed.
Name 1 double reed instrument.
What is oboe or bassoon.
What instrument could belong to the string family or the percussion family?
The Piano
This family has both pitched and unpitched instruments in it.
What is the Percussion family.
Most instruments in this family use a reed
What is Woodwind.
What are the 2 categories that percussion instruments are grouped into?
What are pitched and non pitched.
Name 1 pitched and 1 non-pitched instrument.
What is piano/vibraphone/chimes/timpani and snare drum/bass drum/tambourine, cymbals.