string instrument
Strings can be bowed, plucked, or struck. This topic is part of Instruments within Music. This page currently draws on 9 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
string instrument trivia questions
String instruments produce sound from vibrating what?
Answer: Strings
Bonus fact: Strings can be bowed, plucked, or struck.
Which of these is a string instrument?
Answer: Violin
Bonus fact: The violin is usually played with a bow.
What determines a string's pitch in part?
Answer: Length, tension, and mass per unit length
Bonus fact: Changing any of these changes vibration frequency.
In what year did Gertrude Clarke Whittall donate five Stradivari string instruments to the Library of Congress?
Answer: 1935
Bonus fact: The donation became the cornerstone of the Library's important Cremonese instrument collection.
How many Stradivari string instruments did Gertrude Clarke Whittall initially give the Library of Congress?
Answer: Five
Bonus fact: The Library says the gift comprised a performing group of Stradivari instruments rather than museum relics meant never to be played.
Which family of musical instruments does the cello belong to?
Answer: String family
Bonus fact: The cello is a bowed string instrument related to the violin, viola, and double bass.
A mandolin belongs to which instrument family?
Answer: String instruments
Bonus fact: Mandolins are plucked string instruments.
Bluegrass music commonly features banjo, fiddle, guitar, and what?
Answer: Mandolin
Bonus fact: Acoustic string instruments define the bluegrass sound.
Which instrument family includes the violin, viola, cello, and double bass?
Answer: String family
Bonus fact: Orchestral string instruments can be played with a bow or by plucking the strings.