2. Prepared by Mrs. Autry Devers School Fort Bragg, N.C.

3. Is the largest family in actual numbers Has four members Each has four strings Are bowed or plucked

4. Bowed Plucked

5. ViolinViola Cello String Bass

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 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

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?