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