Misc.
What is vibrating when you play brass instruments in order to make sound?
Lips
What material is an instrument bow strung with?
Horse Hair
Percussion instruments are played by hitting, ________, and shaking.
Scraping
This brass instrument often plays the bass line and is bigger than a trumpet, trombone, or French horn.
Tuba
True or False: Saxophone is made of wood.
False
This is what woodwind and brass instruments both rely on to create sound.
Air
Is a saxophone a part of the brass family?
No.
What are the two categories of percussion instruments?
Pitched and Unpitched
This brass instrument uses a slide instead of valves.
Trombone
Which instrument has keys and is usually the color black, straight, and uses a reed?
Clarinet
This string instrument is played by pressing keys that cause small hammers to strike strings.
Piano
This instrument is larger than a violin but smaller than a cello.
Viola
Name a type of mallet percussion.
Marimba, Xylophone, Bell Kit (Glockenspiel), Vibraphone
If you took a trombone and replaced the slide with valves, you’d get me. I have two names.
Euphonium/Baritone
I am long, silver, and you hold me sideways. I don’t use a reed.
Flute
This is the part of a brass instrument you buzz your lips into.
Mouthpiece
This large string instrument is played by plucking strings with both hands.
Harp
This percussion instrument is a set of metal discs that crash together.
Cymbals
When a brass player buzz their lips faster, the pitch gets...
Higher
This instrument is not metal, not buzzing, and not using a reed, but still belongs to the woodwind family.
Recorder
What is the flared end of a brass instrument called?
a Bell
Pizzicato is when the strings are plucked with your fingers, meaning this is not being used.
Bow
In Latin music, this instrument provides a steady rhythmic scraping pattern instead of being struck or shaken.
Guiro
I am circular and sit in your lap, with my opening facing behind or to the side.
French Horn
Name one instrument in band that uses a double reed.
Oboe, Bassoon (Bonus Points for English Horn)