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Strings
Brass
Woodwinds
Percussion
General
100
This is the highest sounding string instrument.
What is the violin?
100
This is the highest sounding member of the Brass Family.
What is the trumpet?
100
This is the highest sounding Woodwind instrument.
What is the piccolo?
100
The metal wires on the bottom of a snare drum.
What are snares?
100
This instrument can be considered a member of both the String Family and the Percussion Family, but some believe it should be in a fifth family.
What is the piano?
200
This instrument has 47 strings.
What is the harp?
200
The mouthpiece of any Brass instrument is shaped like this.
What is a cup?
200
The little piece of "wood" on a clarinet or saxophone.
What is a reed?
200
The three ways to play Percussion instruments are to hit, to shake, and this.
What is scrape or rub?
200
The music element about the specific sounds that instruments or voices make.
What is Timbre?
300
The three string variables which determine pitch are tightness, thickness, and this.
What is length?
300
This is what vibrates to make a sound on a Brass instrument.
What are your lips?
300
The oboe and the bassoon.
What are double reed instruments?
300
Two metal discs that are hit against one another.
What are crash cymbals?
300
What drum heads were originally made out of.
What is animal skin?
400
A faster string vibration creates what kind of pitch?
What is higher?
400
This is the only Brass instrument without valves.
What is the trombone?
400
The reason a saxophone is a Woodwind instrument and not a brass instrument.
What is because it has a reed?
400
The smaller of two Percussion instruments with different sized wooden bars.
What is a xylophone?
400
In order to hear sound you must have air and this.
What is vibration?
500
The part of the bow that touches the strings is made out of this.
What is horse hair?
500
This causes the pitch to go down on a Brass instrument.
What is pushing a valve?
500
The instrument that plays the lowest notes in the orchestra.
What is the contrabassoon?
500
Tuned drums, also called the kettle drums.
What are the timpani?
500
A slower vibration creates this kind of pitch.
What is lower?