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