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