Strings
The bows of all stringed instruments are made from the hair of this animal.
What is a horse?
These two instruments are the closest in proximity to the string section in the orchestra.
Who are the flutes and the oboes?
In the orchestra, this instrument sits in between its bigger siblings.
What is the trumpet?
This category of percussion CAN NOT play a melody as they do not produce a pitched note or sound.
What is untuned percussion?
This is the biggest section of the orchestra.
What is the string section?
This word means to pluck the string rather than to use the bow.
What is pizzacato?
This instrument is made with a lightweight plastic to allow students to start at an earlier age.
What is the clarinet?
Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis, and Louis Armstrong are some of the famous performers of this instrument.
What is the trumpet?
This instrument has been used for around two hundred years.
What is the triangle?
This section of the orchestra is always divided into two groups. Firsts and seconds.
Who are the violins?
This instrument is usually around 3 inches longer than its smaller cousin.
What is the viola?
This double reed instrument is related to it's lower pitched cousin, the cor anglais.
What is the oboe?
In this period, the brass section often included four horns, four trumpets, four trombones, and one tuba.
What is the Romantic period?
These instruments can be used to create a grand crash of lightening or a dramatic flourish.
What are the cymbals?
The conductor uses this to guide the orchestra while they play.
What is a baton?
This violin maker was one of the most famous of their time and these violins are still in high demand even today.
What is a Stradivari?
This instrument sounds one octave higher than its cousin with a similar body.
What is the piccolo?
This instrument often shares their section with the tuba in the orchestra.
What is the trombone?
This instrument is very similar to the xylophone but it is deeper in pitch.
This section always stands behind the rest of the orchestra.
This instrument often provides the bass line in both orchestral and smaller chamber pieces.
What is the cello?
This double reed woodwind instrument is divided into four different sections.
What is the bassoon?
This instrument was invented in the 1830's in Germany although it was rarely found in orchestras before 1850.
What is the tuba?
These two instruments often stand next to each other and play complimentary parts.
What are the snare drum and the bass drum?
This piece of paper is used by the conductor to show all the music for all the instruments.
What is the score?