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