Brass & Playing
This is the part players buzz into to produce sound on brass instruments.
What is a mouthpiece?
This woodwind instrument is made of metal and does NOT use a reed.
What is a flute?
These are the tools typically used to play a marimba.
What are mallets?
What are pipes?
This family name describes instruments that produce sound by vibrating strings.
What is a chordophone?
Brass players change pitch by changing the length of the tubing and tightening or loosening this.
What are their lips?
Commonly used as an elementary music student's first instrument, this woodwind instrument sounds similar to a flute and does not have a reed.
What is a recorder?
Marimbas and xylophones are examples of this type of percussion instrument.
What is pitched?
This electrophone instrument uses internal computers and software to produce sound.
What is the synthesizer/electric keyboard?
This family name describes instruments that produce sound by vibrating their own body.
What is an idiophone?
This brass instrument changes pitch with a slide rather than valves.
What is a trombone?
This is one of the lowest members of the woodwind family and uses a double reed.
What is a bassoon?
A snare drum, with its stretched membrane, can be described as this.
What is a membranophone?
This instrument contains triggered hammers that strike strings to produce sound.
What is the piano?
This family name describes instruments that produce sound by vibrating air columns.
What is an aerophone?
Trumpet, French horn, and tuba players use their lips and these to change pitch.
What are valves?
This instrument is classified as a single reed woodwind instrument, but is made of brass.
What is the saxophone?
This instrument has keys, but is classified as an idiophone.
What is the celesta?
Sound is produced on this instrument when triggered hammers strike bars.
What is the celesta?
This family name describes instruments that produce sound electronically.
What is an electrophone?
These devices are inserted into the bell of a brass instrument with the purpose of altering the sound.
What are mutes?
This instrument is cylindrical, black in color, and typically plays in a high register.
What is the clarinet?
These percussion instruments can be crashed together or suspended independently.
What are cymbals?
This instrument contains strings that are plucked when keys are pressed.
What is the harpsichord?
Instruments that produce sound by vibrating a stretched membrane belong to this family.
What is a membranophone?