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String Family
Woodwind Family
Brass Family
Percussion Family
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100
Name the largest and lowest-pitched member of the string family.
What is the bass?
100
Name the instrument in the woodwind family that is made out of metal. (HINT: It is usually known for doing bird imitations in the orchestra.)
What is the flute?
100
Name the largest and lowest-pitched member of the brass family. (HINT: There is only one of these in the orchestra.)
What is the tuba?
100
Name three unpitched percussion instruments.
What are the tambourine, triangle, jingle bells, cymbals, snare drum, bass drum, cow bell, maracas, rhythm sticks, wood block...
100
What is a person called who writes music?
What is a composer?
200
Name the string instrument that is split into two sections in the orchestra.
What is the violin?
200
Name the largest and lowest-pitched member of the woodwind family.
What is the bassoon?
200
Name the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in the brass family.
What is the trumpet?
200
Name the three ways you can play a percussion instrument. (HINT: The three "S's")
What are to strike, shake, or scrape?
200
What is the person called who stands at the front of the orchestra with a baton?
What is a conductor?
300
Name the string instrument you find in the orchestra that is not a member of the violin family.
What is the harp?
300
Name the member of the woodwind family that tunes the whole orchestra by playing an A.
What is the oboe?
300
Name the brass instrument that uses a slide to change pitches.
What is the trombone?
300
Name three pitched percussion instruments found in the orchestra.
What are the xylophone, glockenspiel, chimes, marimba, timpani, metallophone, vibraphone...
300
Name the family that sits at the front of the orchestra.
What are the strings?
400
Name the best violin player who sits at the front of the section.
What is the concertmaster?
400
Name the woodwind instrument that is found in a band but not in an orchestra.
What is the saxophone?
400
Name the brass instrument that is a foreigner. (HINT: A foreigner is someone who is not from this country.)
What is the French horn?
400
Name two keyboard instruments.
What are the piano, organ, harpsichord...
400
Name the family that is found all the way at the back of the orchestra.
What is the percussion?
500
Name the four instruments of the string family that sit at the front of the orchestra.
What are the violin, viola, cello, and bass?
500
Name five woodwind instruments.
What are the piccolo, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone, etc.
500
Name the four brass instruments found in every orchestra.
What are the trumpet, French horn, trombone, and tuba.
500
What are the drums called that are tuned to different pitches?
What are the timpani?
500
Name the family that is found in an orchestra but not in a band.
What are the strings?