Strings
This string instrument is played with a bow and is the highest pitched string instrument in the orchestra.
What is the violin?
This woodwind instrument does NOT use a reed. (Hint: there are at least 2 correct answers)
What is the flute OR recorder?
This is one of the highest-pitched brass instruments that we've discussed in class.
What is the trumpet?
This small percussion instrument shares its name with a common shape.
What is the Triangle?
Most brass instruments have this number of valves.
What are 3 valves?
This string instrument looks nearly identical to a violin, but is slightly larger.
What is the Viola?
This instrument, invented in 1840, is one of the youngest woodwind instruments.
What is the saxophone?
This is considered a low brass instrument (Hint: There are at least 4 possible answers)
What is the Trombone, Euphonium, Baritone, or Tuba?
These are the 3 things that percussion instruments can be played with.
What are sticks, mallets, and hands?
Most (but not all) woodwind instruments use a single ___ or a double ____.
What is a reed?
This string instrument has MORE than 4 strings. (hint: there are at least 2 correct answers).
What is the Harp OR Guitar/ Electric Guitar?
This is the only woodwind instrument that's considered to be "reversed conical"
This is something a brass player can do to make their instrument play higher or lower pitches. (Hint: there are multiple correct answers)
Changing the combination of fingers OR changing the shape of their mouth OR blowing faster or slower air.
This percussion instrument is made of metal, can be played in many different ways, and is unpitched.
What are the cymbals?
There is only one instrument family with many unpitched instruments. This family is ___________.
What is percussion?
This is the largest string instrument (out of the ones we've talked about) that can be played with a bow. (hint: it goes by many names)
What is the Bass? (Upright Bass, Acoustic Bass, Double Bass)
Oboe, Bassoon, and English Horn reeds are made out of a material known as ________.
What is cane?
Brass is a metal that is primarily made of a fusion of TWO different lightweight metals. Name at least one of these metals.
What are copper and/or zinc?
This percussion instrument has a pedal that can be pushed up or down to change the pitch of the drum.
What is the Timpani?
This woodwind instrument was made to sound similar to the tone of a human voice.
What is the clarinet?
This is the small wooden part of the violin, viola, cello, or bass that holds up the strings
What is the bridge?
The bit of metal that holds clarinet and saxophone reeds onto their mouthpieces is called the _______.
What is the Ligature?
This is a difference between Euphonium and Baritone. (Hint: There are at least 2 correct answers)
Euphonium is conical, Baritone is cylindrical
OR
Euphonium is most played in America, Baritone is most played in England.
Most percussion instruments can be classified into one of 2 groups depending on how they are played and how they make sound. These 2 groups are _______ and __________.
What are idiophones and membranophones.
The different notes that a brass player can produce with the SAME combination of fingers is called the __________.
What is the harmonic series?