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