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Giant string instruments word search featuring guitar, violin, sitar, and world instruments.
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This 55-word string instruments word search introduces students in Grades 7–10 to plucked, bowed, and struck string instruments from classical, folk, and world music traditions. Hidden words include guitar, violin, sitar, oud, kora, and hurdy-gurdy, spanning multiple cultures and playing techniques. Use it in music class as an instrument-identification activity, a warm-up for a unit on instrument families, or a sub-plan for music learners.

Subject:
Music
Topic:
Instruments
Grade Level:
7th – 10th Grades
Updated August 2023

Word List

  • APACHEFIDDLE
  • AUTOHARP
  • BANJO
  • CIGARBOXGUITAR
  • CUATRO
  • DIDDLEYBOW
  • DOBRO
  • DULCIMER
  • FIDDLE
  • GUITAR
  • HAMMEREDDULCIMER
  • LAPSTEELGUITAR
  • MANDOLIN
  • TIPLE
  • TSIIEDOATL
  • UKULELE
  • WASHTUBBASS
  • AJAYU
  • BANDURA
  • BOUZOUKI
  • CELLO
  • CIMBALOM
  • ERHU
  • GUITARRON
  • GUITARRADEGOLPE
  • HARP
  • HUQIN
  • KOTO
  • LYRE
  • NYCKELLHARPA
  • OUD
  • PSALTRY
  • SANTUR
  • SARANGI
  • SITAR
  • UKULELE
  • VIHUELA
  • VIOLA
  • VIOLIN
  • ZITHER
  • ARCO
  • BOW
  • DOUBLEBASS
  • OCTOBASS
  • PIZZICATO
  • ARCHLUTE
  • GROUNDBOW
  • HURDYGURDY
  • KORA
  • LUTE
  • MUSICALBOW
  • REBAB
  • THEORBO
  • VIOL
  • VIOLADAGAMBA

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