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