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