Topic:
Strings and Wind

Try to list as many stringed instruments as you can. Look at pictures and compare their different sizes, shapes and number of strings.

Factfinding 1- strings

• Find out more details about the wire-string and gut-string harp. Listen to examples. What observations can you make about their different tone qualities?
• Write out your findings for the revision page, which will be printed out after Lesson 6.

• Quiz about Strings
• Crossword based on Stringed instruments
  (There is a print-out version available for homework.)

Factfinding 2 - wind

• Find out more details about the clarinet and oboe. Listen to examples. What observations can you make about their different tone qualities?
• Write out your findings for the revision page, which will be printed out after Lesson 6.

• Cloze test on the woodwind family.
• True or False quiz about wind.

Make a comparison, in your notebook, between the following pairs of instruments. Write 3 points on each pair mentioning the size of the instrument, the material from which each is made, how it is played, the
resultant timbre:

wire harp/gut harp; clarinet/oboe; violin/double bass; piccolo/tuba.

As a follow-on project, this information could be presented to an audience as part of a Transition Year project on sound. Pictures and sound samples would illustrate the findings.