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