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Junior Cycle Music: Orchestral instruments

How often Orchestral instruments comes up on the Music papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 5 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. banker

Orchestral instruments, Common Level(6 marks)

Quick ones on Orchestral instruments.

(a)What are the four families of instruments in a symphony orchestra?
  1. Strings, reeds, pipes, drums
  2. Strings, woodwind, brass, percussion
  3. Keyboards, woodwind, brass, voices
(b)The instruction pizzicato tells a string player to…
  1. Bow very quickly on one note
  2. Play with the wood of the bow
  3. Pluck the strings with a finger
(c)The flute is usually made of metal. Which family does it belong to?
  1. Woodwind
  2. Strings
  3. Brass
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(a) Strings, woodwind, brass, percussion

(b) Pluck the strings with a finger

(c) Woodwind

Your turn: Common Level questions on Orchestral instruments.

Common Level

Asked on 5 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. banker

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q5c, Q6b
2025Q1a
2024Q2d
2023Q4c, Q6a
2022Q2a, Q6a

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

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