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Brass Instruments:

brass instruments The French horn, trumpet, trombone, and tuba are brass musical instruments.

French horn The French horn is a brass musical instrument; it has a very long tube. For a Label Me! printout on the French horn, click here. For a Label Me! printout on the double French horn, click here.

trombone The trombone is a long, brass, musical instrument.

trumpet Your lips vibrate when you play a trumpet. Print out a simple trumpet coloring page or label the parts of a trumpet.

tuba The tuba is a large, brass, musical instrument.

Percussion Instruments:

percussion instruments Percussion instruments are musical instruments that are played by banging or shaking, like drums or maracas.

bell A bell makes a beautiful sound when you ring it.

cymbals Cymbals are musical instruments. You bang or hit these percussion instruments together to make a sound. Print out a simple cymbals coloring page or label the cymbals and other percussion instruments.

drum Drums are very noisy musical instruments. Print out a simple drum coloring page or label the drum and other percussion instruments.

gong A gong makes a loud noise when you bang on it.

kettledrum The kettledrum is a large drum that makes a deep sound. A set of kettledrums is called a timpani.

maracas Maracas are a musical instrument that are made from hollow gourds. Dried seeds or pebbles inside the gourds make noise when the maracas are shaken. Print out a simple maracas coloring page or label the maracas and other percussion instruments.

piano A piano is a musical instrument with 88 keys. When you press a key, it causes a wooden hammer to strike a string, making a sound.

rainstick A rainstick is a ceremonial musical instrument used to invoke the rain spirits. In Chile, rainsticks are traditionally made from dead cactus tubes with hundreds of cactus spines hammered into the tube. Tiny lava pebbles cascade gently through the tube, sounding much like rain.

rattle A rattle makes noise when you shake it.

tambourine A tambourine is a musical instrument. Print out a simple tambourine coloring page or label the tambourine and other percussion instruments.

triangle A triangle is a musical instrument that has a triangular shape. Print out a simple triangle coloring page or label the triangle and other percussion instruments.

xylophone The xylophone is a musical instrument that has rows of bars and is played with a mallet. Print out a simple tambourine coloring page or label the xylophone and other percussion instruments.

String Instruments:

string instrument String instruments are musical instruments that are played by plucking, strumming, picking, or bowing the strings. The guitar, violin, viola, cello, double bass, ukulele, lute, harp, and banjo are stringed instrument.

banjo The banjo is a stringed musical instrument.

Bow The bow is used to play many string instruments, including the violin, viola, cello, and double bass.

cello A cello is a large string instrument.

double bass A double bass is a very large string instrument.

electric guitar The electric guitar is an electronically-enhanced stringed instrument.

fiddle A fiddle is another word for violin. It is a stringed musical instrument.

guitar A guitar is a stringed instrument. Print out a simple guitar coloring page or label the parts of a guitar.

harp A harp is a musical instrument with many strings. Print out a simple harp coloring page or label the parts of a harp.

ukulele A ukulele is a small instrument with four strings.

viola The viola is a stringed instrument that is slightly larger than the violin (and deeper in tone than the violin).

violin The violin is a small, stringed instrument. Print out a simple violin coloring page. For a violin Label Me! printout, click here For more complex violin Label Me! printout, click here.

zither A zither is a small, stringed, musical instrument.

Woodwind Instruments:

Woodwind instrument Woodwind instruments are wind instruments whose sound is produced by the vibration of reed(s) in the mouthpiece. The bassoon, clarinet, English horn, flute, oboe, piccolo, and saxophone are examples of woodwinds.

bassoon The bassoon is a large woodwind instrument with a double reed. It can play very low notes

clarinet The clarinet is a woodwind instrument with a single reed.

English horn An English horn is a woodwind instrument with a double reed.

flute The flute is a woodwind instrument.

oboe The oboe is a woodwind instrument with a double reed.

piccolo The piccolo is small, high-pitched woodwind instrument.

recorder A recorder is a small wind instrument. Print out a simple recorder coloring page or label the parts of a recorder.

saxophone The saxophone is a large woodwind instrument. It was invented by Adolph Sax around 1840.

Miscellaneous Instruments:

harmonica A harmonica is a small, bar-shaped musical instrument; you play it by blowing through the holes.

kazoo You have to hum into a kazoo to make music.

keyboard A keyboard is an electronic instrument played by pressing on the keys.

Musical Instrument Activities:

Musical Instruments Cut-and-Paste Picture Dictionary A short, printable picture dictionary of human anatomy -- for early readers. The words are: bell, drum, flute, guitar, harp, keyboard, recorder, trumpet, violin, xylophone, and write another musical instrument.	What am I? Musical Instruments For each musical instrument, choose the word that best describes it. Or go to the answers.	Picture Prompt Write a story about the picture. The picture shows three children with musical instruments (a drum, a guitar and a xylophone) and one child with no instrument.	Draw and Compare Musical Instruments Draw two musical instruments and then answer simple questions comparing them, for example, "Which one would be louder?"
Match Musical Instruments: Words and Pictures Match 10 musical instruments words to their pictures. The words are: drum, trumpet, xylophone, violin, recorder, cymbals, guitar, harp, flute, trombone. Or go to the answers.	Musical Instrument: Describe It! Worksheet Write the name of a type of musical instrument, then answer questions about how you would describe it.	Missing Letters in Musical Instruments Find the missing letters in musical instrument words, and then color the picture of the word. The words are harp, drum, flute, violin, recorder, xylophone, trumpet, trombone, cymbals.	Unscramble Musical Instrument Words Unscramble the musical instruments, and then color the pictures of the words. The words are drum, trumpet, recorder, violin, xylophone, trombone, cymbals, guitar, harp, flute.
Circle the Correctly-Spelled Musical Instruments Circle the correct spelling of musical instrument words, and then color the picture of the words. The words are drum, trumpet, recorder, violin, xylophone, trombone, cymbals, guitar, flute, harp.	Musical Instruments Word Pieces Puzzle In this puzzle, combine pairs of word segments to make musical instrument spelling words. Words: clarinet, cymbals, drum, flute, guitar, oboe, organ, piano, trombone, trumpet, violin, xylophone. Or go to the answers.	Put 10 Musical Instrument Words in Alphabetical Order - Worksheet Put 10 musical instruments in alphabetical order. The words are: oboe, trombone, triangle, cymbals, maracas, organ, kazoo, tuba, piccolo, bass. Go to the answers.	Put 10 Musical Instrument Words in Alphabetical Order - Worksheet #2 Put 10 musical instruments in alphabetical order. The words are: piano, drum, violin, viola, cello, trumpet, flute, clarinet, guitar, harp. Go to the answers.
Musical Instruments Spelling Word Questions Use the list of musical instruments spelling words to answer simple questions. Words: trumpet, drum, violin, flute, piano, xylophone, maracas, bell, cymbals, triangle, guitar, clarinet. Or go to the answers.	Musical Instrument Vocabulary Word List A list of words related to musical instruments.	Musical Instruments - Letter-Flow Printable Word Puzzle Can you figure out the names of these ten musical instruments? When a line connects two (or more) boxes, those boxes each contain the same letter. Musical instruments: grand piano, electric guitar, castanets, harpsichord, sousaphone, accordion, harmonica, French horn, bongo drum, didgeridoo. Or go to the answers. Or go to a pdf file of the puzzle plus the answers.	Composers #1 - Letter-Flow Printable Word Puzzle Can you figure out the names of these ten composers? When a line connects two (or more) boxes, those boxes each contain the same letter. Composers: Wolfgang A. Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Claude Debussy, Frederic Chopin, Franz Schubert, Bela Bartok, Igor Stravinsky, Giuseppe Verdi. Or go to the answers. Or go to a pdf file of the puzzle plus the answers.
Composers #2 - Letter-Flow Printable Word Puzzle Can you figure out the names of these ten composers? When a line connects two (or more) boxes, those boxes each contain the same letter. Composers: Franz Joseph Haydn, George Frideric Handel, Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Robert Strauss, Peter Tchaikovsky, Gustav Mahler, Antonin Dvorak, Antonion Vivaldi. Or go to the answers. Or go to a pdf file of the puzzle plus the answers.

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