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