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