Woodwind
You have to cover holes to change the pitch.
What is the common trait of the brass family?
You have to buzz your lips!
All sound comes from...
What is different about how sound is made in each family?
Woodwind = air or reed vibrates
Brass = lips vibrate
What vibrates when you play a saxophone or clarinet?
A reed.
What are the buttons called on a brass instrument?
Valves.
In order to play a brass and a woodwind instrument, you have to...
Blow air! That's why we call them wind instruments.
Where does your mouth go in relation to each family?
Brass = on your lips
Woodwind = in your mouth (except for flute)
What vibrates when you play a flute?
The air.
1. Which brass instrument does not have valves? 2. What does it have?
1. Trombone
2. Slide
True or false. Both instrument families have high and low sounding instruments.
True!
What is different about the material that each family is made of?
Woodwind = wood/plastic/sometimes metal
What are the buttons that you press called on a woodwind instrument?
Keys.
(1) high
(2) low
True or false. There are big and small brass instruments and big and small woodwind instruments.
True.
What's the difference in how you change the pitch between the families?
Brass = buzz lips faster or slow, sometimes using valves/slide
Woodwind = cover holes (keys)
Name a woodwind instrument where you have to cover some or all the holes using your fingers.
Clarinet, recorder, bassoon,
Name the brass instruments from highest to lowest.
Trumpet
French horn
Trombone
Tuba
In both families you have to properly form your lips to play the instrument well. What is this called?
Embouchure.
Which instrument family has the louder instruments?
Brass! Metal is louder.