MS 7: Musical Instruments and Families

Colonial American woodwind instrument

• flute

• piccolo

• ocarina

• fife

The marimba is in what instrument family

• brass

• woodwind

• percussion

• string

The cornet, Louis Armstrong's first instrument, is most closely associated with what other brass instrument

• french horn

• tuba

• trumpet

• trombone

What stringed instrument is NOT typically played with a bow

• mandolin

• violin

• cello

• viola

Idiophones and membranophones are two divisions of what instrument family

• percussion

• string

• woodwind

• brass

Which instrument, sometimes called a thumb piano, originated in Africa

• marimba

• concertina

• clavier

• mbira

The shofar, a traditional Jewish horn, would NOT be made from one of the following animals, likely due to the events of Exodus 32.

• ram

• bull

• antelope

• goat

• ukulele

• balalaika

• mandolin

• lute

• ocarina

• jew's harp

• didgeridoo

• fife

• bassoon

• alphorn

• ocarina

• contrabassoon