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