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