DAILY NO. 30 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five music objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 30, 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 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: a cello measures 1.2 m (height), which is 2× as big as the reference, a violin at 59 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 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 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.
Answer: a concert flute measures 67 cm (length / span), which is almost exactly the same size as the reference, a French baguette at 65 cm.
Played sideways, which makes its 67 cm read much smaller on stage.
Common miss: players tend to compress a concert flute when it sits beside a French baguette — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a violin measures 59 cm (height), which is about 1.5× smaller than the reference, a dining chair at 90 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 a dining chair — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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