Making Music at Home Word Search

About this puzzle

Music doesn't need a concert hall. This list is about playing at home: the instruments families keep in the living room (piano, keyboard, guitar, ukulele, drums, harmonica, tambourine), the tools that help (metronome, tuner, capo, sheet music) and the path from daily practice to a recital or a duet with a friend.

The default layout is Medium on a 13×13 grid. Easy, Medium and Hard each use their own checked layout of the same words, and every one can be printed in standard or large print on US Letter or A4.

Word notes

Piano

Short for pianoforte, Italian for "soft-loud", because it can play both quietly and loudly.

Guitar

A standard guitar has six strings, tuned from low to high E, A, D, G, B and E.

Ukulele

A small four-stringed instrument that developed in Hawaii in the 1880s from instruments brought by Portuguese immigrants.

Harmonica

A small wind instrument played by both blowing and drawing air through its reeds.

Metronome

Clicks at a steady tempo to help keep time.

Recital

A performance by one player or a small group, often for family and friends after a period of lessons.

Capo

A clamp that raises the pitch of a guitar’s strings.

Tuner

A device or app that shows whether a note is in tune, sharp or flat.

Try this after the puzzle

Set a practice challenge for a week: five or ten minutes a day on one instrument from the list, with a metronome app at a slow tempo. At the end of the week, hold a mini recital for the family. No instruments? A pot and a spoon make a fine tambourine.

All 14 words

Piano · Guitar · Ukulele · Drums · Harmonica · Metronome · Sheet Music · Practice · Recital · Keyboard · Tambourine · Capo · Tuner · Duet