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