Woodwinds
A woodwind instrument uses a labium instead of a reed.
What is a flute, recorder, or whistle?
This brass instrument uses a slide instead of valves.
What is the trombone?
The largest instrument in the string family
What is the double bass?
What are drums?
This instrument can belong to either percussion or string.
What is the piano?
A woodwind that is made almost entirely of brass.
What is the saxophone?
This brass instrument has the smallest mouthpiece?
What is the French horn?
This strings instrument is played sitting down and on the floor.
What is the cello?
This percussion instrument is made of bronze or brass and clashed together.
What are cymbals?
This instrument is also called a mouth organ.
What is the harmonica?
These instruments use a double reed (need two answers).
What are the oboe, bassoon, English horn, cor anglais?
This brass instrument uses circular tubing to create resonance.
What is the French horn?
This string instrument is played by plucking the strings, never bowing.
What is the harp?
This percussion instrument is pitched and made of wooden bars.
What is a xylophone?
This is the only instrument that reeds alto clef.
What is the viola?
This is the section of the orchestra that the woodwinds sit in.
What is the middle?
This brass instrument has no valves or slide.
What is the natural trumpet or bugle?
The earliest version of the violin, played between your knees.
What is the violin de gamba?
The largest percussion instrument in the orchestra.
What is the timpani?
This is the instrument that orchestra watches for bowing.
What is the first violin or concert master?
How long ago the first woodwind instrument was invented
What was 37,000 years ago OR 60,000 years ago?
Out of the four instrument families, brass was invented in this order.
What is fourth?
The correct Italian term for playing orchestral strings plucked.
What is pizzicato?
This German percussion instrument means "to play the bells."
What is glockenspiel?
An unpitched percussion instrument played by scraping.
What is the guiro?