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