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