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