DAILY NO. 4 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five music objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 4, 2026, with the measured size of each, the reference it was compared against, a source you can check, and how the community's guesses landed. Want the surprise first? Replay this puzzle — archived days never touch your streak.
Answer: a concert tuba measures 1 m (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, an acoustic guitar at 1 m.
Up to 5.5 m of tubing, wrapped into about a metre of instrument.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a concert tuba when it sits beside an acoustic guitar — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a stage microphone measures 18 cm (height), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, a smartphone at 14.7 cm.
A handheld vocal mic is sized around the grip, not the capsule inside it.
Common miss: players tend to compress a stage microphone when it sits beside a smartphone — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a trombone measures 90 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a golden retriever at 94 cm.
Measured closed — running the slide out to seventh position adds more than half a metre.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a trombone when it sits beside a golden retriever — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a double bass measures 1.8 m (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a refrigerator at 1.8 m.
Tall enough that players either stand or perch on a stool.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a double bass when it sits beside a refrigerator — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a concert grand piano measures 2.7 m (length / span), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, a three-seat sofa at 2.2 m.
A concert grand can be more than 2.7 metres long.
Common miss: players tend to compress a concert grand piano when it sits beside a three-seat sofa — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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