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