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