Perc Brands
This brand famously makes mallets with two colors (and marimbas).
What is Marimba One?
This instrument has two metal parts and smashes together.
What are crash cymbals?
This instrument was originally crafted from dried gourds filled with pebbles.
What is a maraca?
This tambourine excerpt is played frequently around Christmas time.
What is Tchaikovsky Trepak?
Marc Demoulakis is principle percussion of this orchestra.
What is The Cleveland Orchestra?
These two cymbal brands split after a family dispute. 100 for each company named.
What are Zildjian and Sabian?
This instrument resembles a modern day marimba; however, it ties back to Bali and Indonesia.
What is a gamelan?
Timpani and bass drum heads are naturally made out of this material.
What is calfskin?
This Xylophone excerpt features a line of quick sixteenth notes for fourteen measures.
What is Porgy and Bess?
This conservatory has been tuition free since 1928 & has a 4% acceptance rate.
What is The Curtis Institute of Music?
The Pennsylvania based retailer has been top in classical percussion since 1961.
What is Steve Weiss Music?
This drum changes pitches by spinning.
What is a Rototom?
This trailblazer was the first female principle percussionist in an American orchestra. Extra 100 points if you know the orchestra.
Who is Cynthia Yeh of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra?
This piece has two major juxtaposed snare drum excerpts.
What is Scheherazade?
This IAC alum won Best New Artist at the 2025 Grammy Awards.
Who is Chappell Roan?
This mallet company was started at Juilliard. Homebase is now in Buffalo.
What is Dragonfly Percussion?
These two Indian drums have different pitches.
What is the Tabla?
This musician was principle timpani of Cleveland starting in 1942. He now has a famous line of mallets through Freer.
Who was Cloyd Duff?
This Opera has a common bell excerpt.
What is The Magic Flute?
This composer wrote a piece with four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence.
Who is John Cage?
This brand was founded in 1995 in Michigan by percussionist Eric Sooy.
What is Black Swamp Percussion?
This ornate pole featured rattling bells and suspended horsehair, originally used in a Janissary band.
What is a Çevgan, Jingling Johnny, or Turkish Crescent?
This European opera orchestra was the first to permanently integrate a timpanist.
What is the Paris Opera Orchestra?
This composer wrote a piece with three significant bass drum excerpts. 300 extra points if you can name the movements with the excerpts.
Who was Stravinsky? Rite of Spring:
Spring Rounds
Dance of the Earth
Sacrificial Dance
This symphony tells the story of the siege of Leningrad.
What is Shostakovich's 7th symphony?