Families
This family includes the violin, viola, cello, double bass, and harp
What is the string family?
The marimba is part of this category, where instruments make their characteristic sound based on the material they are made of.
What are idiophones?
The name for this instrument means "little flute" in Italian.
What is the piccolo?
This instrument is a descendant of the French hunting horn from the 1600s.
What is the French horn?
This person interprets the score and decides how the orchestra should play the music.
What is the conductor?
In this family, players use slides, valves, and muscle control to change their instrument's pitch.
What is the brass family?
All drums belong in this category, where instruments produce their sound by stretching a membrane tightly over a surface.
The name for this instrument is the Italian word for "large trumpet."
What is the trombone?
This instrument has been around since ancient times and was originally made of wood or bone.
What is the flute?
This instrument makes up the largest section in the orchestra.
What is the violin?
This member of the woodwind family is the only orchestral woodwind successfully used in jazz in the early 1900s.
What is the clarinet?
The instrument whose sound is often compared to the human singing voice and must be played sitting down belongs to this category.
What is pianoforte?
This string instrument, which has the largest musical range in the entire orchestra, is one of the oldest instruments in recorded history.
What is the harp?
The harp has this many foot pedals.
What is 7?
The piano belongs to three families: strings, keyboard, and _________
What is percussion?
This category includes all instruments in the woodwind and brass families.
What is aerophone?
Although only two letters change between their names, these two string instruments occupy different pitch ranges and read music using different clefs.
What are the violin and viola?
This instrument, whose ancestors include the organ and the Harpsichord, is so new that we do not see it in any music before the Classical Period.
What is the piano?
What is the clarinet?
This instrument in the brass family occupies the same range as the cello and bassoon- the tenor range.
What is the trombone?
This membranophone, also known as the "kettle drum," is one of few instruments of its category with definite pitch.
What is the timpani?
Instruments in the family often referred to as "the heart of the orchestra" can be played in these two ways.
What is plucked or bowed?
The castanets, an idiophone played by clicking two pieces of wood together, originated in this country.
What is Spain?
This member of the woodwind family has such a stable pitch that it is used to tune the entire orchestra.
What is the oboe?