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