The Orchestra
Woodwinds
Brass
Strings
Percussion
100
The person who leads the orchestra.
What is the conductor?
100
The highest member of the woodwind family.
What is the piccolo?
100
The lowest member of the brass family.
What is the tuba?
100
This instrument is about 500 years old.
What is the violin?
100
This instrument is a geometric shape.
What is the triangle?
200
The instruments found to the left of the conductor.
What is the violin section?
200
An instrument in the orchestra with a single reed to produce the sound.
What is the clarinet?
200
There are no valves on the slidey brass instrument.
What is the trombone?
200
The part of a string instrument that you finger.
What is the neck?
200
This shaker instrument originated in Latin American countries.
What are the maracas?
300
This section plays at the back of the orchestra.
What is percussion?
300
You must blow across the hole to produce a sound on this instrument.
What is the flute?
300
Mrs. Doherty plays this instrument!
What is the French horn?
300
Mozart liked this member of the string family and made it a more important part of the orchestra.
What is the viola?
300
This percussion instrument has different pitches or notes.
What is the xylophone?
400
This section is the heart of the orchestra. Without it, we would have a band!
What is the string section?
400
This double reed instrument represented the duck in "Peter and the Wolf".
What is the oboe?
400
You use valves and this part of your body to change notes on most brass instruments.
What are your lips?
400
This string instrument is different from other members of the family. It has 47 strings!
What is the harp?
400
This large percussion instrument is sometimes used in marching band. You play it by striking the side with a mallet.
What is the bass drum?
500
This section often plays loud fanfares as they point their bells to the audience.
What is the brass section?
500
This large woodwind instrument was the voice of the grandfather in "Peter and the Wolf".
What is the bassoon?
500
This relative of the trumpet plays army songs such as Revillee and Taps.
What is the bugle?
500
Before the violin became the violin, it had a shorter name.
What is the viol?
500
This instrument belongs to the percussion family and the string family?
What is the piano?