3. Is the largest family in the orchestra Has four main instruments Are bowed or plucked or strummed

4. Bowed Plucked

5. Cello String Bass ViolinViola

6. Four members Common ancestor is the animal horn Are played by blowing while buzzing lips

7. Trumpet Trombone French Horn Tuba

8. All of the members are or once were, made of wood Most of them use reeds on the mouthpiece

9. The clarinet, oboe, saxophone and bassoon are wind instruments that sound when the player's breath causes a reed (a thin blade of cane) to vibrate, thereby setting up a sound wave in an enclosed air column.

10. Flute Clarinet Oboe Bassoon Saxophone

11. Some are unpitched Percussion instruments may be played one of three ways: Struck Shaken Scraped Some are pitched

12. Xylophone or Bells Pitched instruments Piano

13. Unpitched instruments Cymbals Sleigh Bells Bongos

14. Bass Drum and Snare Drum are STRUCK

15. Tambourine and Maracas are SHAKEN

16. Guiro and Sand Blocks are played by SCRAPING

17. Can you name the instruments? What instrument family do they belong to?

18. Can you name the instruments?

19. What instrument family do they belong to? Can you name the instruments?

20. What family do these instruments belong to? Are they pitched or unpitched?

21. What family do these instruments belong to? Can you name the instruments? Are they pitched or unpitched?

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