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