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