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