The Woodwind Family
The piece of thin wood that vibrates to make a sound on a clarinet or saxophone.
What is the reed?
This instrument is the lowest member of the brass family.
What is the tuba?
The member of the string family that has 6 strings.
What is the guitar?
These are used to play xylophones, glockenspiels, and other barred instruments.
What are mallets?
What is the brass family?
The higher version of the flute.
What is the piccolo?
This instrument uses a slide instead of valves to change notes.
This instrument is a larger version of a violin, but plays lower notes.
What is the viola?
This geometric shape is also an instrument in the percussion family.
What is the triangle?
The leader of the orchestra.
What is the conductor?
This instrument looks similar to the clarinet but is played with a double reed.
What is the oboe?
This instrument is a marching version of a tuba.
What is the Sousaphone?
This instrument has 47 strings, and is plucked with the fingers.
What is the harp?
The two main categories of percussion instruments.
What are pitched and non-pitched?
The saxophone belongs in this family.
What is the woodwind family?
This is the lowest instrument in the woodwind family.
What is the bassoon?
The buttons on a brass instrument.
On the violin, this is slid across the strings to produce sound.
What is the bow?
This type of kettle drum has a foot pedal which allows it to play different notes. They usually come in sets of 4 or 5.
What are timpani?
The man who invented the saxophone and the euphonium.
Who was Adolphe Sax?
This instrument has the largest range of the woodwind family, and is played with a single reed.
What is the clarinet?
This brass instrument is played with the left hand.
What is the French Horn?
Bow hair is made of this.
What is horse hair?
Drum heads were originally made of this.
What is animal skin?
In order to produce sound, the air inside an instrument must do this.
What is vibrate?