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