by BlastRoom
How instruments work, how music is written down and who wrote it, from the gamelan to the orchestra.

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The violin, the viola and the cello all belong to which family of instruments?

How many strings does a standard violin have?

How many keys does a full-size piano have?
Who stands in front of an orchestra and keeps all the players together?

What is the thin stick a conductor waves called?

Which composer kept writing great music after he had gone almost completely deaf?
Which Austrian composer was touring Europe performing for royalty as a small child?
Which Italian composer wrote the set of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons?
What is the Indonesian orchestra of gongs, drums and metal keys called?

The steelpan, made from an oil barrel, was invented in which Caribbean country?

Which long-necked Indian instrument has extra strings underneath that hum on their own?

Which pair of Indian hand drums is played with the fingers and palms?

Which long wooden wind instrument comes from Aboriginal Australia?

Which wooden instrument with hanging resonator tubes is the national instrument of Guatemala?

How many strings does a standard acoustic guitar have?
In common time, how long does a whole note, also called a semibreve, last?
Which curly clef marks the higher notes and is used by the flute and the violin?

What do we call the distance from one C up to the next C above it?

How many different note names are used, from A to G, before they start again?

What do we call three or more notes sounded at the same time?

Which orchestra section sits at the back and includes the cymbals and the triangle?
Which large kettle-shaped orchestral drums can be tuned to different pitches with a pedal?

Which instrument traditionally plays the note that the whole orchestra tunes to?

What do we call a stage drama in which the whole story is sung rather than spoken?
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