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