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