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