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