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