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