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