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