Brass
Woodwind
Strings
Percussion
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100
This instrument is the lowest voice in the brass family.
What is the tuba?
100
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What is the flute?
100
The violin, viola, cello, and double bass all primarily use this device to produce sound.
What is a bow?
100
Drum sticks, mallets, and your hands are all examples of this device used for playing percussion instruments.
What is a beater?
100
The average jazz band's rhythm section generally is made of a piano, guitar, bass, and this instrument.
What is a drum kit/set?
200
This brass instrument is the only common member of its family to use a slide instead of valves.
What is the trombone?
200
Traditionally made from wood, this woodwind is now most commonly made out of plastic.
What is the recorder?
200
While some may consider it a percussion instrument, this keyboard instrument is, in fact, a member of the strings family.
What is the piano?
200
Bongos, congas, and timbales are all examples of this type of percussion instrument.
What are drums?
200
What are electronic instruments?
300
Brass instruments are played by producing this sound.
What is *blowing a raspberry*?
300
This small, thin piece of wood is used in woodwind instruments such as the clarinet.
What is a reed?
300
This stringed instrument, related to some of the oldest stringed instruments, is played by plucking individual strings with your fingers.
What is the harp?
300
Closely related to the xylophone, this small German instrument uses metal bars.
What is the Glockenspiel?
300
The accordion belongs to this family of instruments.
What are woodwinds?
400
Louis Armstrong is famous for playing this instrument in the brass family.
What is the trumpet?
400
Much like the recorder, this woodwind instrument family comes in different sizes for different pitch ranges.
What is the saxophone?
400
This six-stringed instrument is sometimes misidentified as an electronic instrument.
What is the electric guitar?
400
This percussion instrument consists of two round wooden sticks and creates a very piercing clicking noise.
What are claves?
400
Predating the piano, this stringed keyboard instrument uses wooden "fingers" to pluck the strings inside of it.
What is the harpsichord?
500
An odd man out, this brass instrument is traditionally included in a woodwind quintet.
What is the French horn?
500
Unlike the clarinet and saxophone, which use a single reed, this low woodwind uses a double reed.
What is the bassoon?
500
These thin pieces of metal are found on the fingerboard of instruments like the ukulele or guitar but NOT on the violin.
What is a fret?
500
This instrument, typically coming in sets of 4 or 5, is the only pitched member of the drum family.
What is the timpani?
500
This oddly named brass instrument is an early ancestor of the trombone and trumpet.
What is the sackbut?