String Family
Brass Family
Woodwind Family
Percussion Family
100

What is violin?

100

Name one of these 2 instrument.  They are the smallest of the traditional brass family.  One of them is the most popular brass instrument.


What is the trumpet or cornet?

100

This instrument is usually long and silver and needs no reed.


What is the flute?

100

This is the most popular percussion instrument.


What is the snare drum?

200

What is the viola?

200

This brass instrument is the only 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 and has a single reed.


What is the saxophone?

200

These popular Latin American percussion instruments usually come in pairs and their sound is produced by shaking them.


What are maracas?

300

This instrument has 47 strings and 7 pedals.


What is the harp?

300

This brass instrument is the largest and lowest of the family.


What is the tuba?

300

This woodwind instrument is long and black and uses a single reed.


What is the clarinet?

300

This instrument is thought by many to be in the string family and can be plucked but is actually in the percussion family and usually hit with hammers.


What is the piano?

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

This woodwind instrument is long and black like the clarinet but has a double reed.


What is the oboe?

400

The nickname for this percussion instrument is kettle drum.


What is a timpani?

500

You will need to stand up to play this string instrument or sit on a very high stool.


What is the double bass?

500

John Phillip Sousa invented this instrument to take the place of a tuba in a marching band.


What is the sousaphone?

500

This woodwind instrument is the tallest traditional instrument and has a double reed.


What is the bassoon?

500

The 2 categories (groups) of percussion instruments.

One group cannot change the note they play

and the other group can.


What is pitched and unpitched (non-pitched)?

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