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