DAILY NO. 15 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS

Size It Up answers – September 15, 2026

The five music objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 15, 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.

ROUND 1

Trumpet48 cm

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.

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ROUND 2

Trombone90 cm

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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ROUND 3

Acoustic Guitar1 m

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.

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ROUND 4

Concert Tuba1 m

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.

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ROUND 5

Concert Harp1.9 m

Answer: a concert harp measures 1.9 m (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a refrigerator at 1.8 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 refrigerator — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.

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