Woodwind
Brass
String
Percussion
Miscellaneous
100
This instrument only uses air to make a sound.
What is the flute?
100
This is the way you make a sound into a brass instrument.
What is buzz your lips?
100
The two ways you can play most string instruments.
What is by plucking or using a bow.
100
The two categories of percussion instruments.
What is pitched and non-pitched.
100
This is the person who stands in front of the orchestra and directs them.
Who is the conductor?
200
This instrument is small, looks similar to the clarinet, but uses a double reed
What is the oboe?
200
This instrument used to be used for hunting, and the valves are pressed with the left hand.
What is the french horn?
200
This is the instrument in the string family that you have to sit down to play and rest it between your knees.
What is the cello
200
The kind of drum that has wire coils stretched across the bottom, therefore making a different sound.
What is the snare drum.
200
The instrument that belongs to three families: the string, percussion and keyboard.
What is the piano
300
This instrument is the largest member of the woodwind family, and uses a double reed.
What is a bassoon?
300
This instrument is the largest of the family, and plays to lowest notes.
What is the tuba?
300
This instrument from the string family is sometimes played in the orchestra, not always.
What is the harp?
300
The instrument from the percussion family that you have to shake.
Too many to list.
300
This instrument is a smaller version of the flute. (name instrument family and name of instrument)
What is the woodwind family: piccolo.
400
This instrument was never made from wood, and looks like it belongs to the brass family.
What is the saxophone?
400
This instrument uses something other than a valve to change the pitch. Name the instrument and what it uses to change the pitch.
What is the trombone and it uses a slide.
400
An instrument from the string family that isn't played in the orchestra.
There are too many options to list.
400
An instrument from the percussion family that you have to scrape to make a sound.
Several different options.
400
This is the instrument family that has the most members in the orchestra.
What is the string family.
500
This is a single reed instrument, and it can be made from wood or plastic.
What is a clarinet?
500
This instrument is the smallest and highest pitched brass instrument.
What is the trumpet.
500
The instrument in the string family that is a little larger than the violin.
What is the viola?
500
The instrument in the percussion family that has wooden bars.
What is the xylophone.
500
This is what makes sound happen.
What is vibration