World Instruments

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  1. 3. Although not official, the ____________ is considered the national instrument of the US.
  2. 5. The _______________ is from Ireland.
  3. 7. Talking drums have two drumheads connected by leather cords on each end. You can change the pitch or notes by ______________ the cords with your legs or arms.
  4. 9. What are the hollow tubes on bagpipes made of?
  5. 12. The ________________ is from Brazil and only contains 1 string that is stretched across a bowed piece of wood.
  6. 13. the didgeridoo has been around for over a ____________ years and is made out of wood. Fujara The ______________ is from Slovakia and sounds a lot like a flute.
  7. 14. The ______________ is from Australia.
  8. 19. The banjo is played in many early styles of American music such as Folk, Country, __________________ and Ragtime.
  9. 21. The ______________ is an instrument from Japan that has 13 strings strung over 13 movable bridges.
  10. 22. The _______________ is from Cuba and other islands like Puerto Rico.
  11. 23. Resonators come in all different shapes and sizes and are made from a variety of ______________.
  12. 25. The _______________ is from Thailand and is a wind instrument made of bamboo.
  13. 27. Instrument from Trinidad made from big steel barrels.
  14. 30. ______________ and Jolies are oral historians in West Africa.
  15. 31. What are the hollow tubes on bagpipes called?
  16. 32. The ___________________ is an instrument from India and has 7 strings across a long neck and contain 2 large gourds that resonate the sound.
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  1. 1. The ____________________ Drums are from West Africa.
  2. 2. The zither is a string instrument and the resonator is called a sound-______.
  3. 4. The _______________ is from Indonesia and is made out of 2-3 bamboo sound bodies and are pulled and pushed to make the sound.
  4. 5. On a bagpipe, the musician blows into a small tube called a ________________.
  5. 6. The __________________ is the part of the instrument where the sound is created and given depth and volume.
  6. 7. To play the berimbau, you hit the string with a __________________
  7. 8. West Africans use an instrument called a _______ as well as their voice to tell stories to the people in their community.
  8. 10. The bars of a marimba are positioned like the keys on a ________________.
  9. 11. The _____________ is from China and has been around since eleven hundred B.C.
  10. 12. The _________________ is from Greece and can contain 4-8 strings.
  11. 15. Many countries from around the world have official national ____________________.
  12. 16. The ______________ is from Guatemala/Mexico.
  13. 17. The guiro is made from a hollow gourd that is played by rubbing a stick along the ______________ in the gourd.
  14. 18. You can strum or pluck this instrument as well as using bow to play it.
  15. 20. The guiro plays a key role in the typical rhythm section in all kinds of music especially Jazz and _______________ music.
  16. 24. When playing the koto, musicians use ____________ finger picks to pluck the strings.
  17. 26. When playing the koto, musicians adjust the notes by moving the _______________ before and during their playing.
  18. 28. The resonator of the berimbau is made from a _____________ .
  19. 29. The khene sounds like a ________________.