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