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Percussion Family
Woodwind Family
Double Reeds
Brass Family
String Family
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This type of percussion can be used to play specific pitches.
What is pitched percussion?
100
Flutes were originally made of this material.
What is wood?
100
Double reed instruments are most often made of this material.
What is wood?
100
The material all brass instruments are made from.
What is brass?
100
Going from highest to lowest: violin, ____, ____, double bass.
What is viola and cello?
200
This kind of percussion produces sound when the membrane or head is put into motion.
What is a membranophone?
200
This woodwind instrument has the widest range of any instrument in the orchestra.
What is the clarinet?
200
The action that must happen in order to produce sound on a woodwind and/or a double reed instrument.
What is the reed(s) must vibrate?
200
The action brass players have to do in order to produce sound on a brass instrument.
What is buzz their lips?
200
Sound is produced on all stringed instruments when this vibrates.
What is a string?
300
A whistle is this kind of percussion instrument.
What is an aerophone?
300
This woodwind instrument is not made of wood, but requires a reed to be played.
What is the saxophone?
300
Two reeds are sewn together to create a specific kind of reed.
What is a double reed?
300
This instrument is the lowest sounding in the brass family.
What is the tuba?
300
The position that cellist is in to play.
What is seated?
400
When struck, this kind of percussion produces pitches that cannot be identified when they are struck.
What is unpitched percussion?
400
This man invented the saxophone along with many other unusual instruments.
Who is Adolf Sax?
400
The extra section of mouthpiece on the bassoon.
What is the bocal?
400
The sound created when a trombonist moves the slide in one smooth motion.
What is a glissando?
400
The action of gliding a bow against the strings on a viola.
What is bowing?
500
Percussion instruments can be struck, scraped, or...
What is shaken?
500
To change pitch on a woodwind instrument a player must press on different...
What is keys?
500
A flexible strip of cane that is attached to the mouthpiece of some woodwinds instruments.
What is a reed?
500
A version of the tuba most commonly used in marching band.
What is the sousaphone?
500
A technique a string player may use when they are required to "pluck" a string.
What is pizzicato?