Strings
The two main ways to play string instruments.
What are plucking and bowing?
What are flutes and reeds?
Brass instruments are played by doing this with the lips.
What is buzzing?
The two categories of percussion instruments.
What are Pitched and Unpitched?
This keyboard instrument is considered both a string and a percussion instrument.
What is the piano?
The total number of strings on orchestral string instruments.
What is four?
A small version of the flute that plays much higher.
What is the piccolo?
Most brass instruments, such as the trumpet, have three of these.
What are valves?
A drum that is named for the metal wires stretched across its bottom.
What is the snare drum?
This keyboard instrument uses air blown through pipes to play.
What is the organ?
The most common string instrument in the orchestra.
What is the violin?
A single reed instrument that is actually made of brass.
What is the saxophone?
This instrument uses a slide to change pitch.
What is the trombone?
Plates of brass that can be crashed together, hit with a drumstick, or hit with mallets.
What are cymbals?
This instrument reads paper with holes punched in it to seemingly play on its own.
What is a player piano?
The largest of the orchestral string instruments.
What is the double bass?
The largest reed instrument.
What is the bassoon?
Played with the left hand, this instrument is actually German.
What is the French horn?
Glockenspiel, xylophone, and marimba are all keyboard instruments, which are in this category.
What are pitched?
The grand piano is one of the two common styles of piano, while this is the other.
What is upright?
While modern strings are made of steel or nylon, historically, strings were made of this.
What is gut?
Traditionally made of wood, this single reed instrument can also be made of plastic.
What is the clarinet?
What is the sousaphone?
This is another name for the timpani.
What is kettle drum?
The digital keyboard can also fall into this category of instruments.
What is Electronic?