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