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