Instruments

Question 1

What are the sections of an orchestra?

Answer 1

Strings, brass, percussion, and woodwinds

Question 2

What is the highest sounding member of the strings section?

Answer 2

Violin

Question 3

What is the lowest sounding member of the strings section?

Answer 3

Double bass

Question 4

What is the highest sounding member of the brass section?

Answer 4

Trumpet

Question 5

What is the lowest sounding member of the brass section?

Answer 5

Tuba

Question 6

What is the highest sounding member of the woodwinds section?

Answer 6

Piccolo

Question 7

What is the lowest sounding member of the woodwinds section?

Answer 7

Contrabassoon

Question 8

What is definite pitch?

Answer 8

Instruments that produce sounds that can be easily discerned as a note

Question 9

What is indefinite pitch?

Answer 9

Instruments that produce sounds that cannot be easily discerned as a note

Question 10

What are the most common transposing instruments?

Answer 10

Clarinet, saxophone, horn, trumpet, flute, tuba, euphonium, trombone, bassoon, piccolo

Question 11

Is oboe a single or double reed instrument?

Answer 11

Double reed

Question 12

Is the English Horn a single or double reed instrument?

Answer 12

Double reed

Question 13

Is the clarinet a single or double reed instrument?

Answer 13

Single reed

Question 14

Is the bassoon a single or double reed instrument?

Answer 14

Double reed

Question 15

What is the lowest sounding member of the percussion section?

Answer 15

Bass drum