Woodwinds
Brass
Strings
Percussion
Miscellaneous
100
What is this instrument?
What is an alto saxophone.
100
What brass instrument is often used in Mariachi music?
What is a trumpet?
100
What instrument is this?
What is a guitar
100
What is this instrument?
What is cymbals.
100
What are two examples of double reed woodwind instruments?
What is oboe, bassoon, and/or English horn.
200
How do you change pitch (high and low sounds) on a woodwind instrument?
What is you cover different key holes?
200
What is the only natural brass instrument we learned about?
What is a bugle?
200
What is this instrument?
What is a cello.
200
What is this instrument?
What is a marimba.
200
What is the percussion instrument found in Latin American music where the performer sits on top of the box-like shape and uses their hands and feet to hit the instrument?
What is a cajon?
300
What is special about an edge-blown woodwind instrument?
What is they do not have a reed.
300
What is the only brass instrument that is classified as a slide brass instrument?
What is a trombone.
300
What did bows used to be made out of before switching to synthetic fibers for string hairs?
What is plant fibers or horse hair.
300
What is one characteristic of pitched percussion?
What is multiple places to hit creating different music pitches.
300
What two string instruments use an end pin?
What is cello and upright bass.
400
What is the difference between a single reed and a double reed instrument?
What is a single reed instrument has a mouthpiece, a double reed instrument does not have a mouthpiece.
400
What two types of valves on brass instruments are there?
What is piston and rotary valves.
400
Which two instruments use a chin rest?
What is violin and viola.
400
What are two types of percussion instruments?
What is pitched and unpitched percussion
400
What are the four instrument family names?
What is woodwind, brass, string, and percussion?
500
What needs to happen for an instrument to be considered a woodwind instrument?
What is air (wind) being blown through the instrument causing vibrations
500
What needs to happen for an instrument to be considered a brass instrument?
What is buzzing lips into a mouthpiece.
500
What needs to happen for an instrument to be considered a string instrument?
What is when the instrument is strummed, plucked, or bowed to make sound.
500
What needs to happen for an instrument to be considered a percussion instrument?
What is an instrument that is hit, shaken, or scraped to produce sound.
500
What does it mean for a percussion instrument to be unpitched?
What is it has an indefinite pitch (cannot be tuned to produce a musical pitch)