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