Travel through

Instruments of the

Orchestra

Today we will travel through

the Instruments of the

orchestraThere are five different types of instruments that we are

going to look at

High Strings

Low Strings

High Brass

Low Brass

Woodwinds

High Strings

History of the violin:

http://www.ducksters.com/musicforkids/violin_histo

ry.php

Watch the violin being played:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFfi0gxL6_Y

History of the viola:

http://viola4children.tripod.com/what_is_a_viola.htm

Watch the viola being played:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA6qLsIbLgE

Low Strings

History of the Cello:

http://www.dsokids.com/listen/instru

mentdetail.aspx?instrumentid=6

Watch the cello being played:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN

bXuFBjncw

History of the double bass:

http://www.makingmusicfun.net/htm/f_

mmf_music_library/hey-kids-its-a-

string-bass.htm

Watch the double bass being played:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vL

Uu1H0nGc

High Brass

History of the trumpet:

http://www.blackdiamondbrass.com/t

pthist/trpthist.htm

Watch the trumpet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ

rN2xnNviA

History of the horn:

http://inventors.about.com/od/f

startinventions/a

/French_Horn.htm

Watch the horn:

http://www.youtube.com/watch

?v=FR-

NpJ9nkPQ&feature=plcp

Low Brass

History of the trombone:

http://www.ehow.com/facts_5016498_in

vented-trombone.html

Watch the trombone:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GnJ

-xL7n3k

History of the tuba:

http://www.helium.com/items/2101815-

history-of-the-tuba

Watch the tuba:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONrOhM

W7y4s

Woodwinds

High

Low

History of the flute: http://www.flutekids.eu/en/historyflute_en.htm

Watch the flute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAJ4i1L3y5M

History of the clarinet:

http://www.dsokids.com/listen/instrumentdetail.aspx?instrumentid=24

Watch the clarinet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AzV_Sz-oYw

History of the oboe: http://library.thinkquest.org/5116/oboe.htm

Watch the oboe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlh9AMaTrLQ

History of the bassoon: http://www.soyouwanna.com/bassoon-facts-1850.html

Watch the bassoon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ1Nz3UOOas

Take this quiz!

1. What is the highest string instrument?

2. What is the biggest string instrument?

3. Which instrument does the instrument tune to?

4. What is the only woodwind instrument not made out of wood?

5. Which instrument has a slide that it uses to change pitches?

6. What is the highest sounding brass instrument?

7. What is the lowest brass instrument?

8. What instrument is played with the player’s hand in the bell?

9. What is higher, the clarinet or the bassoon?

10.How many strings are on each string instrument?

Click here to see the answers

Answers

1. What is the highest string instrument? Violin

2. What is the biggest string instrument? String Bass

3. Which instrument does the instrument tune to? Oboe

4. What is the only woodwind instrument not made out of wood? Flute

5. Which instrument has a slide that it uses to change pitches? Trombone

6. What is the highest sounding brass instrument? Trumpet

7. What is the lowest brass instrument? Tuba

8. What instrument is played with the player’s hand in the bell? French

Horn

9. What is higher, the clarinet or the bassoon? Clarinet

10.How many strings are on each string instrument? Four