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