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