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Music Styles and Instruments
1. What U.S. city is known as the birthplace of jazz?
2. What famous British band was once known as The Quarrymen?
3. What instrument does Yo-Yo Ma play?
4. Who sang the halftime show at the 2020 Super Bowl with Shakira?
5. How does a musician control the pitch when playing a Theremin?
6. What is a set of pipes with a specific sound quality called in a pipe organ?
7. Which Brazilian percussion instrument produces 'squeaky' sounds by rubbing a stick inside the drum?
8. Which part of the bagpipes is used by the performer to play the actual melody?
9. What musical interval is famously known as 'The Devil in Music' and used frequently in Heavy Metal?
10. What component of the hurdy-gurdy acts like a continuous violin bow?
11. What is the primary difference between an Oud and a modern Guitar?
12. What marching-band version of the tuba is designed to wrap around the player’s body?
13. Which fingers are primarily used to play a traditional Shona Mbira?
14. What is the most distinctive physical characteristic of the Balalaika?
15. How many strings does a traditional West African Kora have?
16. What is the primary difference between a concertina and an accordion?
17. How does a Mellotron generate its sounds?
18. Which part of the bagpipes is used to play the actual melody?
19. Which 1968 album by Wendy Carlos helped bring the Moog synthesizer into the mainstream?
20. Despite being made of brass, why is the saxophone classified as a woodwind instrument?