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