DAILY NO. 7 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five music objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 7, 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 cello measures 1.2 m (height), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, an acoustic guitar at 1 m.
The body accounts for about 76 cm — the rest is neck and endpin.
Common miss: players tend to compress a cello when it sits beside an acoustic guitar — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a drum kit measures 1.5 m (length / span), which is about 1.2× smaller than the reference, a road bicycle at 1.8 m.
Kit width is set by the bass drum and how far the drummer’s arms can reach.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a drum kit when it sits beside a road bicycle — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a concert harp measures 1.9 m (height), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, a US interior door at 2 m.
Forty-seven strings holding close to a tonne of combined tension.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a concert harp when it sits beside a US interior door — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: an alto saxophone measures 74 cm (height), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, a violin at 59 cm.
The bend and the bell fold more than a metre of tubing into 74 cm of instrument.
Common miss: players tend to compress an alto saxophone when it sits beside a violin — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a violin measures 59 cm (height), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, an alto saxophone at 74 cm.
A full-size violin is always about this long; smaller fractions exist for children, down to 1/16.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a violin when it sits beside an alto saxophone — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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