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