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