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