Parts
Safety
Steps to Hold
Playing
Random Facts
100
The longest part of your instrument where your hand goes
What is the neck?
100
This is a liquid that you should never use to clean your instrument
What is water?
100
Where on the chair do you sit?
What is the edge of the chair?
100
This string is the thinnest and highest-pitched on your instrument
What is the E/A/G string?
100
Name this clef
What is treble clef?
200
These holes on the left and right side of the top plate of the string orchestra family allows sound to escape
What are the f holes?
200
This is one common area where instruments are left when you go home
What is a car?
200
Despite people having different dominant hands, you always hold your instrument on this side
What is the left side?
200
These instruments tune an orchestra
What is the oboe or the clarinet?
200
Your instrument is made out of this material
What is metal/wood
300
You can tune the violin 2 different ways
What are the pegs and fine tuners?
300
This is something you should never get on your bow hair
What is anything but rosin?
300
When you are first learning how to pluck the open strings, you make this shape with your right hand
What is a backwards 'C' shape?
300
A half note is made up of this many quarter notes
2
300
This instrument is the only one to use the alto clef
What is the viola?
400
This part supports the strings and withstands a lot of weight
What is the bridge?
400
Name the surface that you unpack your instrument on
What is the floor?
400
When you are putting your fingers down to play more notes, you touch this part
What is the fingerboard/keys?
400
A whole note is made up of this many quarter notes
4
400
This is the clef you play in if you do not use treble clef
What is bass clef?
500
It was common for violin, viola, cello, and bass strings to be made out of this material up until WWII
What is animal gut? (Fun fact: cat gut was never really used, it was from other animals and it's just called that)
500
These things are something you should keep your instrument away from
What are pets?
500
UPPER: When you are holding the violin/viola in playing position, you are clamping if between these two parts of your body
LOWER: This is the position your left elbow should be in when in playing position
What is the chin and shoulder?
What is 'Up'?
500
This is the note at the bottom line of the bass/treble/alto clef
What is G/E/F?
500
How many valves are on a french horn
What is 3-4?