String Family
They are all similarly shaped.
What do all of the String Family instruments have in common?
A musical instrument played by striking a row of wooden bars of graduated length with one or more small wooden or plastic mallets.
What is a Xylophone?
This wind instrument is made from a tube with holes along it that are stopped by the fingers or keys, with additional notes like B♭, G, A, and F.
What is a Flute?
This instrument a wooden chordophone.
What is a Violin?
A large brass wind instrument with straight tubing in three sections, ending in a bell over the player's left shoulder.
What is a Trombone?
A percussion instrument sounded by being struck with sticks or the hands.
What is a Drum?
The instruments in this family all used to be made of wood.
What do all the Woodwind instruments have in common?
An instrument that has wire strings that sound when struck by felt-covered hammers.
What is a Piano?
This instrument is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.
What is a Bass?
This Instrument can play very low sounds, and is also a biggest brass instrument.
What is a Tuba?
This instrument is a chromatically pitched percussion instrument made from 55 gallon industrial drums. The notes usually seen for this one are F# below middle C (F#3) up to C#6
What is a Steel pan?
An instrument with a single-reed mouthpiece, a cylindrical tube with a flared end with some notes called low B♭, E♭, and high B♭.
What is a Clarinet?
They are all operated by using or playing keys to make sound.
What do every single keyboard instrument have in common?
A string instrument that is played with varying techniques.
What is a Viola?
A large instrument that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.
What is the Bass Drum?
This instrument is made out of wood and metal and gets bigger at the lower end.
What is an Oboe?
This instrument is a bowed string instrument of the String Family.
What is a Cello?
A brass musical instrument with a flared bell and a bright, penetrating tone.
What is a Trumpet?
This instrument is a type of idiophone.
What is a Marimba?
This instrument is the grandfather of the wind section and is so much larger than a regular bassoon that its tube is doubled over twice to allow the player to hold it. The notes for this one include B♭0, A0, and D4.
What is a Contrabassoon?