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