Instruments
This plastic classroom woodwind instrument is played with the left hand on top.
What is the recorder?
The founder of Motown.
Who is Berry Gordy?
You sang "Five Fat Turkeys are We"
What is the Gan Thanksgiving program?
This is the 3rd thing that makes an instrument a member of the percussion family, after hit and shake.
What is scrape?
One place your hands should never be during a performance.
What is in your pockets?
A classroom instrument with 4 strings and has roots in Hawaii.
What is the ukulele?
The amount of money borrowed from a family savings club to start Motown.
What is $800.
This program happens monthly, and has music provided by Mrs. Trivax, Moreh Aharon, and Mr. Phreddy.
What is the Shabbat Mishpacha assembly?
It is the name of the drum in our room that has feet that slightly raise it off the floor, and has a colorful pattern on it's side.
What is the tubano?
What are the lines and spaces on the treble staff?
It is an instrument that has wooden bars of decreasing size, and is played with mallets.
What is a Xylophone?
This building is now the Motown Museum in Detroit.
What is the Hitsville USA studio.
This program created some stress for your parents, as they rushed to created a beautiful and meaningful cover for a book
What is the 1st Grade Siddur Party?
A percussion instrument that can be played by shaking and/or tapping?
The song that concluded STREAM Night in 2025 where the audience held up lights as we sang.
What is "Vehi She'amda"?
It is an instrument with metal bars of decreasing size on a sound box, and has the longest sound duration of all the mallet instruments.
What is a metallophone?
The three members of this group met when they lived in a housing project and went to school together, and weren't allowed to join Motown until they graduated high school.
Who are the Supremes?
The only program at Hillel that happens on a Saturday night.
What is the 3rd Grade Havdalah program?
This instrument's shape reminds you of a fish, and is played by rubbing a stick over the grooves around it's body.
What is a guiro?
The number of years Mrs. Trivax has been at Hillel.
What is 20?
This instrument can be classified into more than one family, but is generally considered more of a percussion instrument than a string instrument, and some people have created a whole new family for it.
What is the piano?
Her career ended when she collapsed into the arms of her duet partner, Marvin Gaye, in her final performance, before passing away from brain cancer 3 years later.
Who is Tammi Terrell?
This program celebrates the new moon, and takes place in the Beit Knesset.
What is the 4th grade Rosh Chodesh program.
This instrument is played by holding on to the metal beads around the side of it, and rotating the handle to create a scraping sound.
What is a cabasa or afuche?
The names of Mrs. Trivax's daughters.
What is Claire, Emma, and Grace?