DAILY NO. 48 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
Today's five music Size It Up comparisons with the measured size of each object, its reference and a source you can check. The puzzle is still live, so every answer stays hidden until you tap it. Haven't played yet? Play today's puzzle first.
The November 8, 2026 puzzle ran from a violin at 59 cm to a concert harp at 1.9 m — about 3× apart, drawing on music. The pair furthest apart was round 4: an acoustic guitar is 1.7× as big as a violin.
Answer: Concert Flute — 67 cm. A concert flute measures 67 cm (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, a baseball bat at 86 cm.
Played sideways, which makes its 67 cm read much smaller on stage.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a concert flute when it sits beside a baseball bat — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Concert Harp — 1.9 m. 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: Violin — 59 cm. A violin measures 59 cm (height), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, an alto saxophone at 74 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 an alto saxophone — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Acoustic Guitar — 1 m. An acoustic guitar measures 1 m (height), which is 1.7× as big as the reference, a violin at 59 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 violin — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Alto Saxophone — 74 cm. An alto saxophone measures 74 cm (height), which is about 1.4× smaller than the reference, an acoustic guitar at 1 m.
The bend and the bell fold more than a metre of tubing into 74 cm of instrument.
Common miss: players tend to inflate an alto saxophone when it sits beside an acoustic guitar — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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