Class 3 GK Worksheet: Musical Instruments
Remember (Pluck, blow or hit?): String: sitar, veena, guitar, violin, sarangi, sarod, ektara, harp. Wind: flute (bansuri), shehnai, trumpet, conch, nadaswaram, saxophone. Percussion: tabla, dholak, mridangam, ghatam, drum, manjira, damru. Numbers: violin 4 strings, guitar 6, ektara 1; the sargam has 7 notes. Sound is made when something vibrates.
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- 1.🎵 How many notes are there in the sargam (sa re ga ma pa dha ni)?
- 2.Which of these is a wind instrument? (a) bansuri (b) harp (c) manjira (d) tambourine
- 3.🥁 How many drums make up one tabla set?
- 4.🎵 Is the tambourine a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) wind (b) percussion (c) string
- 5.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) trumpet (b) sitar (c) harp (d) veena
- 6.🎵 Is the flute a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) wind (b) percussion (c) string
- 7.True or false: the guitar is a string instrument. (a) False (b) True
- 8.Which of these is a string instrument? (a) sarod (b) ghatam (c) bansuri (d) manjira
- 9.Which of these is a string instrument? (a) conch (b) nadaswaram (c) harp (d) manjira
- 10.🎵 Is the guitar a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) string (b) percussion (c) wind
- 11.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) guitar (b) sarod (c) shehnai (d) sarangi
- 12.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) shehnai (b) nadaswaram (c) clarinet (d) sarangi
- 13.Which of these is a wind instrument? (a) tabla (b) mridangam (c) sarod (d) trumpet
- 14.Which of these is a wind instrument? (a) clarinet (b) veena (c) mridangam (d) sarod
- 15.🎸 How many strings does an ordinary guitar have?
- 16.🎻 What do we use to play a violin? (a) a spoon (b) a drumstick (c) a bow (d) a straw
- 17.True or false: the manjira is a percussion instrument. (a) False (b) True
- 18.🎵 Is the trumpet a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) percussion (b) wind (c) string
- 19.Which of these is a wind instrument? (a) mridangam (b) violin (c) ghatam (d) flute
- 20.🎵 Is the manjira a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) wind (b) string (c) percussion
- 21.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) flute (b) damru (c) manjira (d) mridangam
- 22.🎵 Is the clarinet a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) wind (b) string (c) percussion
- 23.🎵 Is the sarod a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) percussion (b) wind (c) string
- 24.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) tambourine (b) ghatam (c) mridangam (d) sarod
- 25.Which of these is a string instrument? (a) ghatam (b) veena (c) manjira (d) bansuri
- 26.Which of these is a percussion instrument? (a) bansuri (b) manjira (c) shehnai (d) sitar
- 27.🔊 Sound is made when something ___. (a) freezes (b) melts (c) vibrates (d) dissolves
- 28.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) clarinet (b) tambourine (c) saxophone (d) shehnai
- 29.True or false: the damru is a percussion instrument. (a) True (b) False
- 30.🎻 How many strings does a violin have?
- 31.🥁 How do we play a tabla? (a) by blowing into it (b) by plucking strings (c) by bowing strings (d) by tapping with hands
- 32.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) damru (b) ghatam (c) mridangam (d) nadaswaram
- 33.🎺 How do we play a wind instrument? (a) by hitting it (b) by plucking strings (c) by shaking it (d) by blowing air into it
- 34.True or false: the shehnai is a percussion instrument. (a) False (b) True
- 35.🎵 Is the conch a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) string (b) percussion (c) wind
- 36.🥁 Which instrument is a pair of drums played with the hands? (a) flute (b) sitar (c) tabla (d) shehnai
- 37.🪕 How many strings does an ektara have?
- 38.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) flute (b) bansuri (c) shehnai (d) ektara
- 39.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) damru (b) saxophone (c) flute (d) bansuri
- 40.Which of these is a percussion instrument? (a) drum (b) violin (c) trumpet (d) veena
Answer key
- 7
- bansuri
- 2
- percussion
- trumpet
- wind
- True
- sarod
- harp
- string
- shehnai
- sarangi
- trumpet
- clarinet
- 6
- a bow
- True
- wind
- flute
- percussion
- flute
- wind
- string
- sarod
- veena
- manjira
- vibrates
- tambourine
- True
- 4
- by tapping with hands
- nadaswaram
- by blowing air into it
- False
- wind
- tabla
- 1
- ektara
- damru
- drum
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