The wonderful world of music is a universal love all over the planet. All cultures express themselves through music in some form. Here are ten of the more unusual musical instruments that make music to my ears.
A rift in time opened up right in the middle of my rehearsal - there are composers from the past here right now! Can you help determine which musical period each of these composers need to go back to?
This quiz focuses on classical Chinese musical instruments, which often use a pentatonic scale rather than the heptatonic scale more common in Western music. Chinese instruments often influenced the development of similar instruments elsewhere.
Musical instruments from around the world are not really "strange" in and of themselves, but sometimes certain ones are used in ways one wouldn't expect. Do come in for a listen and see which ones you recognise as being the "odd one out".
Over the years various puppets, children's TV characters and actors have had chart hits in the UK. Let's see if you can remember them, or if not work them out.
Anyone who has passed Grade 1 will find this quiz quite easily-as long as you have learnt 'Second finger back on the top 2 strings.' If you're as far as that, you might be able to get through with 10/10.
This quiz is about facts in music theory. For those children who haven't learned music theory yet, this quiz may be hard for you so this quiz is for people who have learned theory in music (most preferably those in middle school). Good luck!
This was one of my daughter's favorite videos when she was young. I spent many hours watching it with her, and the music still creates for me fond memories. Are you still young at heart?
When I was in elementary school, we had a "hand game" we would play. We would stand in a circle and sing the rhyme, "Down By the River". Let's see if you can remember the lyrics! (This is the version I learned; there may be some regional differences!)