Woodwinds
The material all of the instruments in the woodwind family were originally made or.
What is Wood?
What you need to do on the mouthpiece of a brass instrument to make a sound.
What is buzz your lips?
How a percussion instrument creates vibrations (provide one of three).
What is Hit? or Strike? or Scrape?
The number of different types of string instruments always always present in the orchestra.
What are four?
An instrument that is sometimes thought to be part of the string family, but really belongs with the percussion.
What is the Piano?
The very thin piece of wood that vibrates to make a sound on a woodwind instrument.
What is a reed?
The one instrument in the brass family that does not use valves to change notes.
What is the Trombone?
True or False: Percussion players sometimes play more than one instrument in a piece of music.
True
The name of the stick used by string players to make the strings vibrate.
What is the Bow?
The family with the most players in the orchestra.
What is the String Family?
A woodwind instrument not found in the orchestra.
What is the Saxophone?
The smallest and highest sounding brass instrument.
What is trumpet?
Two percussion instruments that make their sound by being hit
What are:
Drums, Wood Block, Triangle, Claves, Castanets, Tambourine, Xylophone, Cymbals, Gong, Chimes
True or False: The string family has the fewest number of players in the orchestra.
False.
The instrument family that has the most instruments in the orchestra.
What is the Percussion Family?
Is the lowest sounding woodwind, and played the part of Grandfather in Peter and the Wolf.
What is the Bassoon?
This instrument played The Wolf in Peter and the Wolf.
Who was the wolf?
This instrument is so big the player has to sit down to play it, and it is sometimes included in the string section of the orchestra.
What is the harp?
The instrument family that plays the loudest in the orchestra.
What is the Brass Family?
How sounds are changed to play different notes on a woodwind instrument.
What are keys covering holes?
Found at the end of the tubing that makes up the instrument, this is where the sound comes out.
What is the bell?
Their ability to do this makes the Timpani (also called Kettle Drums) special
What is that they can be tuned to certain notes?
One of the most common string instruments, but is rarely part of the orchestra (only when it is a featured instrument).
What is the Guitar?
This person leads the orchestra.
Who is the Conductor?