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