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