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Class 3 GK Worksheet: Musical Instruments

GK lesson 16: Musical instruments · Set 340 · 40 questions
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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. 1.🎵 Is the tambourine a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) percussion (b) string (c) wind
  2. 2.🥁 Which instrument is a pair of drums played with the hands? (a) flute (b) sitar (c) tabla (d) shehnai
  3. 3.🪕 How many strings does an ektara have?
  4. 4.🎻 What do we use to play a violin? (a) a spoon (b) a straw (c) a drumstick (d) a bow
  5. 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. 6.🔊 Sound is made when something ___. (a) freezes (b) vibrates (c) melts (d) dissolves
  7. 7.True or false: the trumpet is a percussion instrument. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🎻 How many strings does a violin have?
  9. 9.🎵 How many notes are there in the sargam (sa re ga ma pa dha ni)?
  10. 10.True or false: the sitar is a wind instrument. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: the mridangam is a wind instrument. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🥁 How many drums make up one tabla set?
  13. 13.🎵 Is the drum a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) wind (b) string (c) percussion
  14. 14.Which of these is a wind instrument? (a) manjira (b) mridangam (c) trumpet (d) guitar
  15. 15.🎵 Is the harp a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) wind (b) string (c) percussion
  16. 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. 17.Which of these is a string instrument? (a) conch (b) bansuri (c) saxophone (d) harp
  18. 18.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dholak (b) manjira (c) ghatam (d) guitar
  19. 19.True or false: the guitar is a string instrument. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🎵 Is the veena a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) wind (b) percussion (c) string
  21. 21.🎵 Is the ektara a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) string (b) percussion (c) wind
  22. 22.Which of these is a wind instrument? (a) damru (b) sitar (c) nadaswaram (d) tabla
  23. 23.Which of these is a string instrument? (a) damru (b) sarangi (c) drum (d) flute
  24. 24.Which of these is a percussion instrument? (a) nadaswaram (b) dholak (c) sarod (d) shehnai
  25. 25.🎵 Is the sarod a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) string (b) percussion (c) wind
  26. 26.True or false: the ektara is a string instrument. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these is a percussion instrument? (a) mridangam (b) ektara (c) violin (d) flute
  28. 28.🎵 Is the sarangi a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) string (b) percussion (c) wind
  29. 29.Which of these is a wind instrument? (a) mridangam (b) damru (c) conch (d) ghatam
  30. 30.True or false: the manjira is a percussion instrument. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🎵 Is the conch a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) percussion (b) string (c) wind
  32. 32.🎵 Is the tabla a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) percussion (b) string (c) wind
  33. 33.🎵 Is the saxophone a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) wind (b) percussion (c) string
  34. 34.True or false: the dholak is a string instrument. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🎵 Is the nadaswaram a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) wind (b) percussion (c) string
  36. 36.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) harp (b) guitar (c) veena (d) nadaswaram
  37. 37.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) clarinet (b) ghatam (c) damru (d) drum
  38. 38.🎵 Is the guitar a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) wind (b) percussion (c) string
  39. 39.🎵 Is the sitar a string, wind or percussion instrument? (a) wind (b) string (c) percussion
  40. 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) dholak (b) drum (c) damru (d) sitar

Answer key

  1. percussion
  2. tabla
  3. 1
  4. a bow
  5. by blowing air into it
  6. vibrates
  7. False
  8. 4
  9. 7
  10. False
  11. False
  12. 2
  13. percussion
  14. trumpet
  15. string
  16. by tapping with hands
  17. harp
  18. guitar
  19. True
  20. string
  21. string
  22. nadaswaram
  23. sarangi
  24. dholak
  25. string
  26. True
  27. mridangam
  28. string
  29. conch
  30. True
  31. wind
  32. percussion
  33. wind
  34. False
  35. wind
  36. nadaswaram
  37. clarinet
  38. string
  39. string
  40. sitar

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