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