Learn about drums, sitar, and pan flutes by identifying their sounds, materials, and musical roles in different cultures.
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Exploring instruments and sounds from around the world
Music - Grade 2-3
- 1
A drum makes sound when its surface is tapped or struck. What part of the drum usually vibrates to make the sound?
- 2
The sitar is a string instrument from India. How does a musician usually make sound on a sitar?
- 3
Pan flutes are made from several tubes of different lengths. A musician blows across the top of the tubes. What makes one tube sound higher or lower than another tube?
- 4
Circle the instrument that is usually played by striking it: drum, sitar, pan flute.
- 5
Circle the instrument that is usually played by blowing air: drum, sitar, pan flute.
- 6
Circle the instrument that has strings: drum, sitar, pan flute.
- 7
A class hears a steady boom, boom, boom that helps everyone clap together. Which instrument is most likely making this steady beat, and why?
- 8
Look at these instrument groups: percussion, string, and wind. Match each instrument to its group: drum, sitar, pan flute.
- 9
A musician plays music at a celebration. The drum keeps the rhythm, the sitar plays a melody, and the pan flute plays soft notes. What does rhythm mean in music?
- 10
Write one way that drums, sitar, and pan flutes are different from each other.