Odd Instrument Questions
Musical Symbols
Dangers of being a Musician
Holiday Hits
100
This musical instrument adds a "buzzing" quality to a player's voice when vocalized into by way of a vibrating membrane. It is not exactly a woodwind and not exactly a percussion instrument.
Kazoo
100
The notes seen here 
16th notes
100
Ludwig van Beethoven, was an amazing composer, 1770 - 1827. He struggled with this disability in the last 15 years of his life, yet he continued composing even though it was more challenging.
Hearing loss (deafness)
100
Mariah Carey told everyone that “All I Want for Christmas Is ____________"
YOU !
200
This percussion instrument is made from suspended tubes, rods, bells often made of metal, played by either striking them or letting the wind move them against a striker.
Wind Chimes or Wind Bells
200
The note seen here
8th note
200
Rachmaninoff suffered a serious bout of this mental illness after the embarrassing premiere of his First Symphony. He stopped composing altogether and wrote and only wrote this work as a thank you to his therapist Dahl.
Depression
200
Name the tune in this scene 1990's movie:
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
300
This small member of the lute family has 4 nylon strings and is popular in Hawaiian culture.
Ukulele
300
The notes seen here, which were a part of Sleigh Ride's body percussion piece: 
Two 16th notes & one 8th note
300
Johann Sebastian Bach's failed cataract surgery on this part of his body was performed by an "18th century flamboyant quack". A follow up surgery led to a post-operative infection, and finally his death.
His eyes
300
Unlike this song, we aren't singing about a seasick crocodile. Sing the beginning of the Alfred Round.
What kind of animal is Alfred?
Alligator
Have you ever been down the waterspout
To the very bottom of the water system?
There you'll find a little alligator, who goes by the name of Alfred, if you do he's mine.
I lost him.
I threw him down the waterspout
And now I'm feeling loney cause he's gone!
I miss him.
400
This pitched percussion instrument from East and Southeast Asia, is a flat, circular metal disc, hit with a mallet.
GONG
400
The symbol at the end of this line that tells the musician to play G, B and C again.
Repeat sign
400
Jean-Baptiste Lully fatally stabbed himself in this body part while conducting in 1687.
His foot
400
This is a new Daveed Diggs song for Hanukkah! He was in the hit musical "Hamilton", which was written by this famous man, that we studied during National Hispanic Heritage Month. Who is that man?
Lin-Manuel Miranda
500
This horn has a wooden cup-shaped mouthpiece, used by mountain dwellers for communication in those regions of Europe.
Alps horn or Alpenhorn or Alpine horn
500
It means to stop or pause the tempo. The note should be held longer than its regular value, usually determined by the conductor.
Fermata
500
Robert Schumann 1810 - 1856 is celebrated today as a fine composer, writer and poet. His piano playing career ended early do to this professional injury
Finger paralysis... due to finger stretching? mercury medication?
500
Sing one verse of your favorite holiday song.
Did you sing?