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