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