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Families of Instruments
All in the Family
Yakima Symphony
Potpourri
200
What are the 4 instruments in the string family?
Violin, viola, cello, bass
200
Name a string instrument that is NOT part of the orchestra.
Several different answers.
200
During the performance at the Yakima Symphony, what other music did they play?
Music from Harry Potter
200
What different kind of instrument that you saw in the orchestra does Mrs. Erickson play?
The harp
400
What are the four instruments in the brass family?
Trumpet, french horn, trombone, tuba.
400
Name a woodwind instrument that is NOT part of the orchestra? And isn't the saxophone. :)
Recorder
400
What happened to Sonia the duck during the performance at the Yakima Symphony?
She was eaten by the wolf.
400
"Don't put your finger in the frog's mouth!" What does that mean?
To hold the bow correctly.
600
What are the five instruments that were discussed in the woodwind family?
Piccolo, flute, clarinet, oboe, and bassoon.
600
Name a brass instrument that is NOT part of the orchestra?
Flugel horn.
600
Which instruments represented the hunters in Peter and the Wolf?  Are they a membranophone or idiophone? Why?
Timpani, membranophone.  They have a head stretched across the top of the instrument.
600
How do you know a percussion instrument is a membranophone?
It has a head (membrane) stretched across it.
800
What are the two different kind of percussion instruments?
Membranophone, and idiophone.
800
Are maracas (shakers) considered a membranophone or idiophone? Why?
Idiophone.  You shake them to produce sound.
800
What season (spring, fall, winter, summer) did Peter and the Wolf take place in during the live performance? Why?
Spring (or summer).  The story teller mentioned a meadow, and animals were playing in the water.
800
The holes on the front of the violin, viola, cello, and bass that help the instruments move their sound are called what? 
F holes