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