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