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