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