Instruments of the World

What does the suffix "-phone" mean?

• Sound

• Talk

• Hear

• Text

What are the four categories of instruments by how they create sound?

• Vibratophones, homophones, chordophones, and pianophones

• Vibratophones, membranophones, chatterboxes, and aerophones

• Idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, and aerophones

• Idiophones, telephones, chatterphones, and aeroplanes

Idiophone means ________.

• Other-sounder

• Wood-sounder

• Self-sounder

• Metal-sounder

How do idiophones make a sound?

• Vibrating strings

• Striking a stretched membrane, skin or surface

• Moving air in a tube or across a sharp edge

• Shaken, hit, stamped, scraped, or plucked

How do chordophones make a sound?

• Striking a stretched membrane, skin or surface

• Moving air in a tube or across a sharp edge

• Shaken, hit, stamped, scraped, or plucked

• Vibrating strings

What are examples of chordophones?

• Xylophone, sitar, flute, drum

• Drift-tar, piano, trumpet, drum

• Sitar, drift-tar, trumpet, guitar

• Sitar, drift-tar, violin, piano

How do membranophones make sound?

• Vibrating strings

• Shaken, hit, stamped, scraped, or plucked

• Moving air in a tube or across a sharp edge

• Striking a stretched membrane, skin or surface

What are examples of membranophones?

• Drums, talking drums, bucket

• Drums, piano, sitar

• Drums, xylophone, bucket

• Drums, sitar, talking drums

How do aerophones make sound?

• Moving air in a tube or across a sharp edge

• Shaken, hit, stamped, scraped, or plucked

• Striking a stretched membrane, skin or surface

• Vibrating strings

What are examples of aerophones?

• Flute, didgeridoo, bullroarer

• Drum, piano, xylophone

• Talking drum, flute, sitar

• Flute, didgeridoo, shaker