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