Brass Instruments
Woodwind Instruments
Percussion Instruments
String Instruments
World Instruments
100
These instruments can be made out of many materials, including this one.
What is brass, metal, plastic, wood, or animal horn?
100
These instruments were named because they were made of wood, but ancient peoples used this material to make flutes.
What is bone?
100
These instruments make sound by this motion.
What is shake or hit?
100
This instrument family makes its sound by vibrating this part of the instrument.
What is the string(s)?
100
The banjo is largely considered this country's national instrument, despite it not being officially named.
What is the United States?
200
These instruments make sound by vibrating which body part?
What is the lips?
200
This object, which is the name of one of the two woodwind families, vibrates to let some woodwind instruments create sound.
What is a reed?
200
This innovation in percussion technology made it easier to play multiple drums at once.
What is the drum pedal?
200
These three things impact the sound, or pitch, of the string instrument.
What is the length, thickness, and tightness?
200
This Japanese string instrument is similar to the gayageum that we observed in class.
What is the koto?
300
Instruments in this group are further divided into these two families.
What is valved and slide?
300
This popular instrument plays the highest notes in any band or orchestra.
What is the piccolo?
300
These two families divide melody and rhythm between their houses.
What is pitched and unpitched?
300
This instrument originated in Hawaii, and was influenced by Portuguese immigrants.
What is the ukulele?
300
This Latin American instrument is made of a hollow gourd, and modern depictions often look like Beaker from The Muppets.
What is the guiro?
400
This instrument remains as the one member of the slide family.
What is the trombone?
400
This popular reeded instrument has many different forms, although the most common is alto.
What is the saxophone?
400
This unpitched percussion instrument is popular among singers and features miniature cymbals paired with a drum head.
What is the tambourine?
400
This instrument is part of the hammered strings family, and is hammered with spoon-shaped mallets.
What is the hammered dulcimer?
400
This Chinese instrument is most famous for playing the theme song to Super Mario Brothers.
What is the sheng?
500
This instrument was adapted from the tuba for marching bands, so they could march with this low sound.
What is the sousaphone?
500
This instrument has double the reeds, and the orchestra tunes to it at the start of every performance.
What is the oboe?
500
This pitched percussion instrument has metal keys, and a motor that provides extra vibration.
What is the vibraphone?
500
The height of this instrument gave it the nickname "Doghouse" among musicians who play it.
What is the Double Bass?
500
This music group made instruments out of objects they found, from trash to spare wood.
What is the Landfill Harmonic?