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