String
Woodwind
Brass
Percussion
Classroom Instruments
100
All string instruments have this element
What are strings?
100
All woodwind elements have this element
What is a wooden mouthpiece, or what is blowing air into an instrument?
100
All brass instruments have this element
How are instruments made of metal/brass?
100
All percussion instruments have this element
How are instruments hit, tapped, shaken, or scraped?
100
Most of our classroom instruments belong to this instrument family
What is the percussion family?
200
String instruments are in this section of the orchestra
What is the red/front section?
200
Woodwind instruments are in this section of the orchestra
What is the yellow/middle section?
200
Brass instruments are in this section of the orchestra
What is the green/middle section?
200
Percussion instruments are in this section of the orchestra
What is the purple/back section?
200
The largest drum in the music classroom
What are conga drums?
300
The three main ways string instruments are played
What are bowing, strumming, and plucking?
300
The difference between woodwind and brass instruments
Why are brass instruments made out of metal, but woodwinds can be made out of anything?
300
Ways that brass instruments are played
What are pressing keys, turning keys, and sliding tubes?
300
Things you can use to play percussion instruments
What are your hands, mallets, and sticks
300
Woodwind instrument you learn to play in 4th grade
What is a recorder?
400
The piano belongs to these two instrument families
What are the string and percussion families?
400
Name of the mega family woodwind instruments belong to
What is the wind family?
400
Reason why some brass instruments are not made entirely of metal
Why are some instruments hundreds/thousands of years old?
400
Reason why the piano belongs to the percussion family
Why are strings tapped/hammered?
400
When we use written music, we put it on these holders
What is a music stand?
500
Making a string shorter does this to the sound/note
Why does it make the sound/notes higher?
500
Ways that woodwind instruments changesound/notes
How do you press keys or press air?
500
Name of the mega family that brass instruments belong to
What is the wind family?
500
Fill in the blank: Many percussion instruments can play different sounds/notes, meaning they are ________ instruments
What is "pitched"?
500
Smaller, metallic version of xylophone
What is a glockenspiel?