Name the Family
Key Parts
Name the instrument
Wildcard
100

You pluck or use a bow to perform instruments in this family.

What are strings?


100
You drag this across a violin string to play notes.

What is a bow?

100

You use a slide to play this brass instrument.

What is the trombone?

100

A group of all four instrument families that work together to perform music.

What is an orchestra?

200

Any instrument to tap (strike) to play is this family. 

What is percussion?

200

You blow into this piece of wood to play a woodwind instrument.

What is a reed?

200

Squidward plays this black woodwind instrument that uses a reed and keys. 

What is a clarinet? 

200

This person waves their arms in front of the orchestra in order to keep them on the same beat.

What is the conductor?

300

You blow air inside these two instrument families to play.

What are woodwind and brass?

300

This is a special stick used in percussion that has a ball on the end used for playing notes.

What is a mallet? 

300

This is the largest string instrument.

What is the bass?
300

What instrument does Mr. Matcho play? (the most) 

What is the trombone?

400
This family features instruments that do not change pitches (plays different notes), but instead focuses on rhythms and dynamics.

What is percussion? (Example: drums)

400

On woodwind instruments, the buttons we press are called keys, in brass, they are called ___________.

What are valves?

400

Which woodwind instrument does not have a reed, but you blow in like a water bottle. (It still has keys)

What is a flute?

400

This string instrument is NOT a part of the orchestra.

What is the guitar? (also accepted: ukulele, banjo)

500

The piano fits inside which two families.

What are percussion and strings.

500

What are the three S of percussion?

What are strike, shake, and scrape (slide)? 

500
Name 3 percussion instruments.

(Possible answers: drums, triangle, piano, tambourine, egg shaker, cymbals, bass drum, snare drum, xylophone, guerro, bells, maracas, hand drum, boom whackers, and more....) 

500

This composer went deaf, loosing his hearing, but wrote his best music afterwards. 

Who is Beethoven?