meloktaMUSIC GAME
Name the Instrument
Listen to a sound and find which instrument is playing: piano, drums, trumpet, recorder or xylophone.
What does it teach?
- Recognizing instruments by their sound
- Hearing differences in timbre (tone colour)
- Learning instrument families
How to play
Listen to a sound and find which instrument is playing: piano, drums, trumpet, recorder or xylophone. On easy level you choose between two instruments, then the choices grow.
Game facts
- Instrument
- Piano, Drums, Trumpet, Recorder, Xylophone
- Suggested grade
- Grades 1–4
- Age
- 6–10
- Levels
- Easy, Medium, Hard
- Tasks
- 15
Tasks
Easy
- Piano or drums? — Tells a keyboard instrument (piano) from a percussion instrument (drums) by sound. Grades 1–2 · 3 min
- Trumpet or recorder? — Tells two wind instruments apart by timbre: the bright brass trumpet and the soft recorder. Grades 1–2 · 3 min
- Drums or trumpet? — Hears the difference between percussion and wind sounds (short hit – sustained sound). Grades 1–3 · 3 min
- Xylophone or recorder? — Tells the sound of wooden bars struck with mallets from the sound of a blown recorder. Grades 1–3 · 3 min
- Piano or xylophone? — Tells two pitched instruments (piano and xylophone) apart even when they play the same notes. Grades 2–3 · 3 min
Medium
- Three instruments: keys, skin, brass — Recognizes piano, drums and trumpet among three choices. Grades 2–3 · 4 min
- Three instruments: wood, breath, keys — Recognizes xylophone, recorder and piano among three choices. Grades 2–3 · 4 min
- Wind or percussion? — Recognizes trumpet, recorder and xylophone from melodies; compares wind and percussion sounds. Grades 2–4 · 4 min
- Four-instrument band — Recognizes piano, drums, recorder and trumpet among four choices. Grades 3–4 · 5 min
- Same tune, four sounds — Tells four instruments apart by timbre alone while they play the same tune. Grades 3–4 · 5 min
Hard
- Five instruments: single notes — Recognizes all five instruments from a single note. Grades 3–4 · 5 min
- Five instruments: short tunes — Recognizes all five instruments from short tunes. Grades 3–4 · 5 min
- Same note, five colours — Tells instruments playing the same pitch (G) apart by tone colour alone. Grades 3–4 · 5 min
- High-note detective — Recognizes instruments in the high register (C5 and above). Grades 3–4 · 5 min
- Instrument quiz final — Recognizes single notes and tunes, mixed together, among all five instruments. Grades 3–4 · 6 min