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