What is the smallest instrument in the strings section?
what is violin
100
what are the buttons on woodwind instruments called?
What are keys
100
The type of mouth piece used by brass instruments
What is a cup mouthpiece?
100
Name 2 un-pitched instruments used to keep beat.
What is wood block, bass drum, triangle, sand blocks, cymbals, fish, maracas, claves, castanets, cowbell, or tambourine.
100
This section sits behind the string section.
What is woodwind section
200
What is the highest pitched instrument in the strings section?
what is the violin
200
The woodwind instrument that is the most popular. It is black and has a single-reed. It's nickname is the "licorice stick".
What is the clarinet.
200
The item used to produce sound on a trombone
What is the slide
200
This is the difference between a timpani and a bass drum.
What is..... The timpani are never played alone (2-4 each with a different pitch).
The bass has only
one pitch
200
The stick that the conductor holds.
What is a baton.
300
The stringed instrument that is 6 feet tall and plays the lowest notes.
What is the bass.
300
This woodwind has a double-reed and is used to tune-up the orchestra. It is sometimes used to coax snakes out of a basket to dance.
What is the oboe.
300
Which brass instrument is the biggest and plays the lowest notes.
What is the tuba.
300
The 3 ways the percussion instruments are played.
What is hitting, scraping, and shaking.
300
The section of the orchestra that has tuned and non-tuned instruments. It sits in the back of the orchestra because the instruments are loud.
What is percussion section.
400
Where are the stringed instruments seated in the Orchestra?
What is the front of the Orchestra
400
Name an instrument in this family that does not use a reed.
What is a flute or piccolo.
400
The name of the “buttons” used by a trumpet.
What is are values.
400
This is the reason a piano is in this family
What is hammers hitting the strings?
400
Which section of the orchestra has mouthpieces that are all shaped the same. You must buzz your lips to get it to sound.
What is the brass section.
500
The stringed instrument that is slightly larger that the violin and it can play slightly lower notes than the violin
What is the viola
500
This instrument is the longest woodwind instrument. It has a double reed, and looks like a long pipe. It plays very low notes. It sounds like a clown laughing.
What is the bassoon.
500
Which brass instrument was used to announce kings?
What is the trumpet.
500
What are 2 tuned percussion instruments?
What is xylophone, chimes, celesta, piano, or bells.
500
Which section of the orchestra is not included in a band?