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