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