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