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