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