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