Musical Instruments

What this quiz asks

• How many strings does a standard acoustic or electric guitar have?
• In an orchestra's string section, home to instruments like this one, which plays the lowest notes?
• Which instrument family does the trumpet belong to?
• The piano is often classed as a percussion instrument as well as a string instrument.
• Which brass instrument changes pitch with a long sliding tube instead of valves?
• What is the small flat tool many guitarists hold to strike the strings?
• Which instruments does a timpanist play in an orchestra?
• Which goblet-shaped drum from West Africa is played with bare hands?
• Select ALL of these instruments that you play with your breath.
• How many holes does a standard diatonic harmonica have?
• Order these woodwind instruments by the lowest note each can play, from highest to lowest.
• Is the sound of a xylophone made by striking wooden bars?
• The sousaphone is a type of tuba designed to wrap around the player's body for marching.
• The ukulele was developed in Hawaii from a small guitar brought by immigrants from which island?
• Which Australian Aboriginal wind instrument is made from a tree trunk hollowed out by termites?
• Select ALL of these that are keyboard instruments.
• The word pianoforte, the piano's full name, refers to its ability to play how?
• Fender's 1951 electric bass, the first to be mass-produced, was called what?
• The accordion, the harmonica and the harmonium all produce their sound using what?
• Which frame drum, central to Irish traditional music, is played with a small double-ended stick?