DAILY NO. 10 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five music objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 10, 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 harp measures 1.9 m (height), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, a hockey stick at 1.6 m.
Forty-seven strings holding close to a tonne of combined tension.
Common miss: players tend to compress a concert harp when it sits beside a hockey stick — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a cello measures 1.2 m (height), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, a dining chair at 90 cm.
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 a dining chair — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a concert grand piano measures 2.7 m (length / span), which is 1.3× as big as the reference, a queen bed at 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 queen bed — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a trumpet measures 48 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a domestic cat at 46 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 domestic cat — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a stage microphone measures 18 cm (height), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, an ice cream cone at 17 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 an ice cream cone — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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