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