Woodwind Family
Brass Family
Percussion Family
String Family
Ensembles
100

The highest instrument in the woodwind family.

What is the piccolo?

100

The highest instrument in the brass family.

What is the trumpet?

100

Name a percussion instrument that you shake.

What are the Maraccas, shakers, bells, and tambourine.

100

The highest instrument in the string family.

What is the violin?

100

A group of singers.

What is a chorus?

200

The only woodwind instrument that does not have a reed.

What is the flute?

200

Name the lowest instrument in the brass family.

What is the tuba?

200

Name a percussion instrument that you strike.

What are the drum, xylophone, triangle, wood block, and tambourine?

200

Name the lowest instrument in the string family.

What is the double bass?

200

An ensemble of string players.

What is an orchestra?

300

This instrument plays in a jazz band, but does not play in an orchestra.

What is the saxophone?

300
This causes the air to vibrate for the brass instrument to produce sound.

What is buzzing in the mouthpiece?

300

True or false: The percussion family is part of a band, orchestra, and choir.

False.

300

This separate device is used to make the strings on the instrument vibrate.

What is a bow?

300

A group of woodwind, brass, and percussion players.

What is a band?

400
The lowest instrument in the woodwind family.

What is the bassoon?

400

This instrument has a slide instead of valves to change pitches.

What is the trombone?
400

Name the percussion instrument that has strings inside of it.

What is the piano?

400

Name a string instrument that does not use a bow.

Banjo, guitar, harp, and ukulele.

400

The person who shows the group when and how to play their instruments or sing.

What is a conductor?

500

Name one of the double reed instruments in the woodwind family.

What is the oboe and bassoon?

500

The brass family is separated into 2 categories: low brass and high brass.

Name one low brass instrument and one high brass instrument.

Low Brass: Tuba, baritone, trombone

High Brass: Trumpet, horn

500

Name 5 instruments in the percussion family.

Bass drum, snare drum, xylophone, timpani, bongos, triangle, cymbals, tambourine, percussion, congas, tubano, wood block, slap stick, bells.

500

True or False: The string family is part of a band.

False

500

A person who writes music.

What is a composer?