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