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This brass instrument plays the lowest note.
What is the tuba?
This instruments was first made of wood, then metal.
What is the flute?
A wooden rod that is strung with horse hair.
What is a bow?
Name two types of drums.
What are the snare, timpani, and bass drum?
Name the four instrument families that are in the orchestra.
What are the strings, percussion, brass, and woodwind family?
The instrument that slides longer and shorter as you play it.
What is the trombone?
What is a reed?
Name an instrument that you hold in your left hand and place under your chin.
What is a violin or viola?
Name two percussion instruments that are played by shaking them.
What are the maracas and tambourine?
The stick that the conductor uses to direct.
What is the baton?
Name the brass instrument that is curled into a circular shape and has almost 15 feet of tubing.
What is the French Horn?
Name the woodwind instrument that looks very similar to the oboe, only it uses a single reed and a mouthpiece.
What is the clarinet?
This instrument sits on the floor and you hold it with your knees.
What is the cello?
Name the instrument you strike with a rubber hammer in order for it to make sound.
What are the chimes?
About how many people are typically in the orhcestra?
What is 50-100 people?
How a brass player produces a sound on his instrument.
What is buzzing lips?
Name two instruments that use double reeds.
What is the oboe or bassoon?
Name four string instruments
What are the harp, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, and guitar?
Name different ways you can play a percussion instrument.
What is shaking, striking (hitting), or rubbing?
What are the buttons on a trumpet, tuba, and French Horn called?
What are valves?
Name different ways you can play a string instrument.
What is strumming, bowing, or plucking?
The biggest difference between the bass drum and timpani.
What is the timpani canned be tuned to specific pitches?
This instrument is made from brass, but is not a brass instrument. It is a woodwind instrument.
What is the saxophone?