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