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