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