Woodwinds
Strings
Brass
Percussion
Instrument Family
100

This instrument plays the highest note in the orchestra or concert band.

What is a flute or piccolo?

100

This is the highest sounding string instrument in the orchestra.

What is a violin?

100

This brass instrument has the widest range of pitches and is circular in shape. 

What is a french horn?

100

These metal plates are crashed together to make sound. 

What are cymbals?

100

The Trumpet is a part of this family.

What is the brass family?

200

Squidward plays this instrument on Spongebob.

What is a clarinet?

200

This string instrument is positioned between the legs while the player is seated.

What is a cello?

200

This instrument is the largest and lowest sounding in the brass family. 

What is a tuba?

200

This drum is typically used as a military drum or marching drum that has metal strings on the bottom.

What is a snare drum?

200

The Cello is a part of this family.

What is the Strings Family?

300

This instrument is not commonly played in the orchestra, but is played mostly in jazz music and in the concert band or marching band.

What is a saxophone?

300

This tool is made of wood and horsehair used to rub across the strings to make them vibrate for sound.

What is a bow?

300

a brass instrument with a slide rather than valves

What is a trombone?

300

These drums are also known as kettle drums, and are tuned by using foot pedals. 

What is a timpani?

300

The Sousaphone is a part of this family.

What is the brass family?

400

This instrument plays the lowest note in the orchestra or concert band and has the widest range of all woodwind instruments.

What is a bassoon?

400

This string instrument is 1/5 larger than the violin and plays slightly lower pitches. 

What is a viola?

400

the highest brass instrument

What is a trumpet?

400

This instrument keeps the tempo in most marches. 

What is a bass drum?

400

The Saxophone is a part of this family.

What is the Woodwind Family

500

This double reed instrument is known to tune the band or orchestra.

What is the oboe?

500

This is the lowest pitched string instrument in the orchestra. 

What is a double bass?

500

This instrument is the lowest sounding and largest instrument in the marching band, and is named after John Phillip Sousa- the King of Marching music. 

What is a sousaphone?

500

This wooden pitched percussion instrument is played by hitting mallets on graduated bars. 

What is a xylophone?

500

English Horn is a part of this Family.

What is the Woodwind Family