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