Instrument Fun Facts
Instrument Families
Highs and Lows
The Other Parts of an Orchestra
100

The highest instrument in the brass family

What is a Trumpet? 

100

This instrument family has instruments with strings on them. 

What is the string family?

100

This instrument makes the lowest sound in the brass family.

What is a tuba?

100
This person writes music for an orchestra to play

What is a composer?

200

An instrument that you have to stand or sit on a tall stool to play.

What is a Double Bass?

200

This instrument family has instruments that are made out of brass.

What is the Brass Family?

200

This instrument is the highest in the string family

What is a violin?

200

This person leads the orchestra from the front

What is a conductor?

300
An instrument that looks like it should belong to the brass family, but is in the woodwind family.

What is a Saxophone?

300

This instrument family has instruments with reeds to help them make sound.

What is the Woodwind Family?

300

This instrument is the lowest in the percussion family

What is the bass drum?

300

The group of people that watch a performance

What is an audience?

400
A percussion instrument that shares its name with a shape.

What is a triangle?

400

This instrument family has instruments that must be shaken, tapped, hit, or scraped in order to make sound.

What is the Percussion Family?

400

This instrument is slightly lower than the violin

What is a viola?

400

This is the stick that is used to help lead the orchestra

What is a baton?

500

The smallest and highest pitched instrument in the entire orchestra, related to the flute

What is a Piccolo?

500

This instrument family has several rule-breakers in it.

What is the Woodwind Family?

500

This instrument is the lowest in the woodwind family

What is a bassoon (or contrabassoon)?

500

A group of musicians playing instruments from the brass, woodwind, string, and percussion families

What is an orchestra?