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