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