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