DAILY NO. 16 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five music objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 16, 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 grand piano measures 2.7 m (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, an adult horse at 2.4 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 an adult horse — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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: 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 concert harp measures 1.9 m (height), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a double bass 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 double bass — 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.
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