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