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