NAME THE INSTRUMENT!
This is a quiz (a yearly tradition that I dream up….) for my 18 years and under students each year over the Christmas holiday!
How would you do? 🙂
Please don’t reply to this, unless you want to answer via email to this address to see if you are correct! – annetoppingmusic@aol.co.uk
I hope you enjoy it! 🙂
NAME THE INSTRUMENT! 🙂
A wind instrument
Reed pipes are attached to a wind bag, usually made of animal skin
It has a drone when played
(7 letters)
A keyboard instrument
When a key is pressed a metal balde strikes a pair of strings, remaining in contact until the key is released
It makes a very quiet sound
(10 letters)
A wind instrument
It is made from metal, but has a single reed in the mouthpiece
It was patented as an invention in 1846
(9 letters)
A stringed instrument
Its music is usually notated in the alto clef
It is an instrument used in a string quartet
(5 letters)
A wind instrument
It can be made of wood or plastic
It has been used from the middle ages up to present day
(8 letters)
A stringed instrument that comes in different sizes
It is played with a bow, but also has frets
It is often associated with music from the rennaisance
(4 letters)
A percussion instrument
It is of Middle Eastern origin, but is especially associated with Spanish music
A shallow drum with a wooden frame that has metal discs attached
(10 letters)
A percussion instrument
It is struck with mallets
It is often used to imitate Church bells
(7-5 letters)
An automated keyboard instrument (technically a brand name)
It is usually operated by the use of pedals
The music is on a paper roll with holes in it
(7 letters)
A stringed instrument
It has an end pin and is played between the legs
The composer Elgar wrote a famous concerto for it
(5 letters)
A woodwind instrument
It is very high in pitch range
Its name means “small” in Italian
(7 letters)
An early electronic musical instrument
You don’t actually touch it to play it
Rock bands such as Hawkwind have used it in recordings, and the comedian, Bill Bailey plays it.
(8 letters)
A brass instrument
It is made of nearly 13 feet of coiled tubing
It is an orchestral instrument with a heroic quality and it plays the theme for the “Universal Pictures” introduction for the start of a movie.
(6-4 letters)
A plucked stringed instrument
It originates from China
It has been around for nearly 2000 years
(4 letters)
A Keyboard instrument
It was invented in the early 1700s by Bartolomeo Cristofori
Famous makes include Steinway, Broadwood and Pleyel
(5 letters)
A plucked stringed instrument
It is usually used for folk or bluegrass music
It has a circular body
(5 letters)
A wind instrument
It has a double reed
Its name translates to “English Horn”
(3-7 letters)
An electro-mechanical keyboard instrument
The first ones were made in Birmingham
It was used by The Beatles, most famously in “Strawberry Fields Forever”, and Princess Margaret owned one
(9 letters)
A wind instrument
It was invented in the 19th Century by Giuseppe Donati
It can be made of porcelain, clay or plastic and is also known as a “sweet potato whistle”
(7 letters)
A long necked lute of Northern India
It has a gourd body
There are seven principal strings; four melody strings and three drones
(5 letters)
A percussion instrument associated with Ireland
It is usually played sitting down and held vertically
It is struck with a “tipper”
(7 letters)
A stringed instrument with a trapezoid sound box
The strings are struck by the player with wooden hammers
It originated in Persia
(8 letters)
A keyboard instrument
It can be electronic and usually is nowadays
The following terms are relevant: Chimney Flute, Night Horn, Vox Humana
(5 letters)
A brass instrument
It is associated with American marching bands
It fits around the body of the player
(10 letters)
It is arguably a wind instrument
Its different ranges can be known as “chest”, “head” and “falsetto”
In the classical world, there are six classifications of type, according to range.
(5-5 letters)
