Woodwind
What is the common trait(s) of the woodwind family?
reed, an instrument made of wood, fingers cover holes,
What is the common trait of the brass family?
You have to buzz your lips!
True or false. There are big and small brass instruments and big and small woodwind instruments.
True.
What is different about how sound is made in each family?
Woodwind = air or reed vibrates
Brass = lips vibrate
What vibrates when you play a saxophone or clarinet?
A reed.
What are the buttons called on a brass instrument?
Valves.
True or false. Both instrument families have high and low sounding instruments.
True!
Where does your mouth go in relation to each family?
Brass = on your lips
Woodwind = in your mouth (except for flute)
What vibrates when you play a flute?
The air.
1. Which brass instrument does not have valves? 2. What does it have?
1. Trombone
2. Slide
In order to play a brass and a woodwind instrument, you have to...
Blow air! That's why we call them wind instruments.
What is different about the material that each family is made of?
Woodwind = wood/plastic/sometimes metal
The oldest woodwind instrument in this family that used to be made of wood or bone, but is now made of metal
flute
(1) high
(2) low
For every instrument besides the flute, where does the sound come out of the instrument
What's the difference in how you change the pitch between the families?
Brass = buzz lips faster or slow, sometimes using valves/slide
Woodwind = cover holes (keys)
the youngest instrument in this family
Saxophone
Name the brass instruments from highest to lowest.
Trumpet
French horn
Trombone
Tuba
Name all 10 brass and woodwind instruments that we have learned about.
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Saxophone, Bassoon, Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Baritone, Tuba
Which instrument family has the louder instruments?
Brass! Metal is louder.