Instrument Families
Vocabulary
Instruments
Branham
Mystery
100

What are the four families of the orchestra?

What are Strings, Woodwind, Brass, Percussion?

100

To play with the bow

What is Arco?

100

A small, high pitched, stringed instrument

What is Violin?

100

The room that we are in right now

What is Room 63?

100

The largest String instrument ever produced

What is the Octobass?

200

Which family of the orchestra is the largest?

What is Strings?

200

To pluck the string

What is Pizzicato?

200

A person who stands in front and leads the orchestra

What is a Conductor?

200

Where Branham Bands go every spring

What is SoCal/Disneyland?

200

Four clefs commonly used in music

What is treble, alto, tenor, bass clef?

300

What instrument is in two families?

What is the Piano?

300

To play moderately loud

What is Mezzo forte?

300

What does the conductor sometimes hold in their hand?

What is a Baton?

300

The lowest note on a violin

G

300

To the nearest 5 million, the price of the most expensive violin ever sold

What is 25 million?

400

Which instrument belongs in the woodwind family, but is made of brass?

What is the Saxophone?

400

To play with a short bow stroke

What is Staccato?

400

The largest stringed instrument in a conventional orchestra

What is a Double bass?

400

5 concerts that the Branham Bands participate in

What is [Fall concert, Winter concert, Jamba Jamboree, BGT, Pops Concert, May Concert, etc]?
400

To the nearest 50, the number of participants in Jamba Jamboree

What is 350 people?

500

What two strings do all of the orchestra instruments have?

What are the D and A strings?

500

To shake the bow quickly at the tip

What is Tremolo?

500

A stringed instrument that has strings (lowest to highest) of C G D A

What is a Viola or Cello?

500

The maximum amount of AP classes someone has taken at Branham

What is 15?

500

The names of Five people you see in this meeting right now

What is [names]?