DAILY NO. 8 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five music objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 8, 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: 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 trumpet measures 48 cm (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a computer keyboard at 44 cm.
About 1.5 m of tubing, wrapped into 48 cm of instrument.
Common miss: players tend to compress a trumpet when it sits beside a computer keyboard — 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 acoustic guitar measures 1 m (height), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a dining chair at 90 cm.
A dreadnought is about a metre long, but only 65 cm of that is vibrating string.
Common miss: players tend to compress an acoustic guitar when it sits beside a dining chair — 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 baseball bat at 86 cm.
Measured closed — running the slide out to seventh position adds more than half a metre.
Common miss: players tend to compress a trombone when it sits beside a baseball bat — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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