Instrument Families
This family includes the violin, viola, cello, and bass.
What is the string family?
This small woodwind has a high, bright sound and no reed
What is the flute?
The word “timbre” means this.
What is the tone color or unique sound quality of an instrument?
The person who leads the orchestra is called this.
Who is the conductor?
The French horn is usually played with one hand inside here.
What is the bell of the instrument?
Instruments in this family are played by buzzing into a mouthpiece
What is the brass family?
This brass instrument has a slide instead of valves.
What is the trombone?
This family usually carries the melody in an orchestra.
What is the string family?
This is the largest instrument in the string family.
What is the double bass?
This instrument used to be made from animal gut.
What is the violin (or string instruments)?
The flute, clarinet, and saxophone belong to this family.
What is the woodwind family?
This string instrument is the smallest and highest-pitched.
What is the violin?
This instrument is known for its brassy, bold sound and often plays fanfares.
What is the trumpet?
This section usually sits in the front of the orchestra.
What is the string section?
This brass instrument is actually not French.
What is the French horn
Instruments that are struck, shaken, or scraped.
What is the percussion family?
This keyboard percussion instrument looks like a piano but has metal bars.
What is the xylophone or glockenspiel? (Accept either)
A soft, breathy timbre is most commonly heard in this family.
What is the woodwind family?
Instruments are grouped into these four main families.
What are strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion?
The largest drum in an orchestra.
What is the bass drum?
This instrument family does not always need air to produce sound.
What is the string or percussion family? (Accept either)
This double-reed woodwind has a long tube and low pitch.
What is the bassoon?
The difference in timbre is what helps us tell these apart.
What are different instruments?
This is a fancy word for a large group of musicians who play together.
What is an orchestra?
This percussion instrument has no definite pitch
What is the snare drum?