High Winds
Low Winds
High Brass
Low Brass
Percussion
100
This smaller version of the flute is the highest-pitched instrument in the woodwind family.
What is the piccolo?
100
The bass clarinet is usually pitched in this key.
What is Bb?
100
This highest-pitched standard orchestral brass instrument can trace its lineage back to ancient signal horns.
What is the trumpet?
100
This long, cylindrical brass instrument is the only member of the brass family that changes pitch using a slide instead of valves.
What is the trombone?
100
This large drum is often placed at the back of the orchestra and provides the lowest, most resonant sounds.
What is the bass drum?
200
With a four-octave range, it holds the distinction of having the widest pitch range among all woodwind instruments.
What is the clarinet?
200
This woodwind, despite being made of brass, is classified as such due to its use of a single reed for sound production, and helps bridge the tonal gap between brass and woodwinds in an ensemble and is one of the lowest in its instrument family. 
What is the baritone saxophone?
200
The "bell" on this brass instrument can be 'stopped' by placing a hand inside it, altering the pitch and tone, a technique dating back to when these instruments lacked valves.
What is French Horn?
200
This unique marching band instrument is essentially a tuba coiled around the player's body with a forward-facing bell for optimal outdoor projection. It is named after The March King.
What is the sousaphone?
200
The name of this tuned percussion instrument, meaning "wood sound" in Greek, refers to its wooden bars that are struck with mallets.
What is the xylophone?
300
Considered the oldest woodwind, with examples made of bone and ivory dating back tens of thousands of years.
What is the flute?
300
This B-flat pitched member of the saxophone family is visually identifiable by the distinctive curve in its neck, or crook, near the mouthpiece, and is widely known for its "husky" yet "bright" tone and its prominent solo role in jazz music.
What is the tenor saxophone?
300
Originally developed to make playing high Baroque music easier, this instrument is one octave higher than its standard counterpart and famously featured in a Beatles hit.
What is piccolo trumpet?
300
This valved instrument, sometimes described as a small tuba, is the alto voice of the low brass section, blending the rich sound of the trombone with the agility of a valved instrument.
What is the baritone horn?
300
This pair of drums, of Cuban origin, is played with the hands and can be tuned to different pitches.
What are bongos?
400
This inventor of the saxophone had several brushes with death including falling from a height of three floors and hitting his head on a stone, drinking a bowl full of acidic water, swallowing a pin, receiving serious burns from a gunpowder explosion, falling on a hot cast iron pan, accidental poisoning and asphyxiation, and being hit in the head with a cobblestone and subsequently falling into the river. He (somehow) lived to 79 years old. You must give his first name for your answer to be correct. 
Who is Antoine-Joseph Adolphe Sax?
400
The lowest-pitched woodwind instrument in the orchestra, its extensive tubing is folded back on itself multiple times to make it manageable for the player.
What is the contrabassoon?
400
This brass instrument, often mistaken for a smaller, forward-facing French horn, utilizes a more conical bore and a wider mouthpiece, allowing for stronger projection in open-air settings and making it a standard alto voice in drum and bugle corps.
What is the mellophone?
400
While often confused, this instrument typically boasts a wider bore than the baritone horn, which contributes to its darker, more resonant sound, a characteristic that led to its name derived from the Greek word for "beautiful voice".
What is the euphonium?
400
This instrument, with its small metal bars tuned to a high range, is named after the German words for "bell play".
What is the glockenspiel?
500
This instrument's unique bore and fixed reed construction, allowing limited pitch adjustment solely through embouchure or reed manipulation, cemented its historical role as the pitch standard for orchestras, though modern technology provides more precise alternatives. The principal player of this instrument generally tunes the orchestra or band with a concert A.
What is the oboe?
500
This infrequently seen member of the clarinet family, sometimes nicknamed the "pedal clarinet" due to its low register, has a unique construction where its cylindrical bore is bent back on itself multiple times, often constructed with a combination of wood and metal, according to Henri SELMER Paris. Its lowest playable note, depending on the model, can reach down to a written C3, sounding as low as B♭0.
What is the contrabass clarinet?
500
While commonly contrasted with its cylindrical counterpart, this instrument's bore, featuring a predominantly conical shape, historically facilitated its superior agility and flexibility, leading composers like Berlioz to score distinct parts for it alongside the less agile, valveless natural trumpets of the era.
What is a cornet?
500
The "compensating system" found on some models of this conical low brass instrument is designed to address inherent intonation flaws by adding extra tubing lengths when multiple valves are pressed, creating more accurate low notes.
What is the Euphonium?
500
While commonly attributed to European military traditions, the formal codification and standardization of the "26 Standard American Drum Rudiments," which serve as a foundational vocabulary for both marching and drum set playing, were first spearheaded by this American organization established in 1933. (Acronym is accepted.)
What is the National Association of Rudimental Drummers (NARD)