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