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