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