This small instrument is no longer included in orchestras, but is played in elementary schools across the country.
What is the recorder?
Instrument families are usually categorized by something that they have in common (material, playing method, etc.), but the woodwind family is connected because of this.
What is the fact that you have to blow into them to play them?
The word piccolo means "small" in this language.
What is Italian?
As well as being heard in certain styles of rock n' roll, this small rectangular instrument is frequently used as a main instrument in the blues.
What is the harmonica?
This double reed instrument is the largest in a woodwind quintet and is often used to depict silly or awkward sounds, such as a goose.
What is the bassoon?
Clarinets and saxophones are examples of woodwind instruments with this type of mouthpiece. (Hint: a type of reed)
What is a single reed?
What are lyrics?
The origins of the blues come from these traditional African-American religious songs.
What are spirituals?
This single reed instrument is popularly played by one of the characters in the children's TV show: Spongebob Squarepants.
What is the clarinet?
All wind instruments were originally made out of this material before they began to include more modern materials like metal and plastic.
What is wood?
This unit measurement which contains four beats makes up one of the 12 in the blues form.
What is a bar?
What are sad situations?
This woodwind instrument, named after the Italian word for small, is the highest playing instrument in the orchestra.
What is the flute?
The french word "timbre" is used in music to describe this.
What is the quality of the sound?
The blues has been called "classical" because it follows a specific form/structure, which is called this.
What is the 12 bar blues?
This outsider instrument in the woodwind family has a body that is made out of brass.
What is the saxophone?
This type of reed, used by bassoons and oboes, requires many hours of crafting with tools like knives, sand paper, and string.
This scale acts as the basis for all improvisation in the blues style.
What is the blues scale?
This man was known as the father of the blues.
Who is W.C. Handy?