Classical String Instruments
This instrument has the highest pitch of the classical string family
What is the violin?
This instrument can be played in classical music, Spanish music, jazz, and rock n' roll. This instrument has six strings.
What is the guitar?
How many strings are on a classical orchestral instrument?
What is 4 strings?
What is a bow made of?
What is horse hair and wood?
Why are there so many violins in the orchestra?
Because they are quieter than many of the other instruments and they often have the main melody.
This instrument looks like a violin, but sounds lower.
What is the viola?
This instrument has four strings, and looks like a snare drum. It is played in classical music, country music, and bluegrass music.
What is the banjo?
What is the bow?
Name 2 string instruments that are not in the orchestra.
Mandolin, Banjo, Dulcimer, Sitar, Ukulele, Guitar
A group of 4 string instruments playing together.
What is a string quartet?
This instrument is played by sitting in a chair, and placing the instrument in between in the players legs
What is the cello?
This instrument looks like a small guitar. It has four strings, and is commonly played in Hawaiian music.
What is the ukelele?
Name two ways a string instrument can be played
What is bowed?
What is plucked?
What are three ways that strings can produce different notes/change pitch?
A person who plays the cello is called this.
What is a cellist?
This instrument plays the lowest pitch of the classical orchestra family
What is the double bass?
This instrument was the first known string instruments.
What is the lyre?
This part is at the end of a classical instrument, and it is curled. This part is the fancy end of a string instrument.
What is the scroll?
How many string does a modern harp have?
What is 47 strings.
What are the four families of instruments?
The Strings, the woodwinds, the brass and the percussion.
What instrument has the largest number of members in an orchestra?
What is the violin?
This instrument is a member of the string instrument family and the percussion instrument family.
What is the piano?
These are what the string players use to tune their strings with
What are the tuning pegs?
How does a string instrument produce sound?
The vibration of the strings, which resonate through the hollow body of the instrument.
In what country was the violin founded/made?
Italy