Famous Musicians

& Instruments
 Sitar stringed instrument
Name Name
Buddhaditya Mukherjee Nikhil Banerjee
Ustad Bande Hassan Khan Shahid Parvez
Ustad Vilayat Khan Uma Shankar Mishra
Nishaat Khan Pt. Ravi Shankar
Hint
Jaya Biswas Anoushka Shankar
Debu Chaudhuri Shujaat Khan

Name
Veena stringed instrument Hint
S. Balachander

Bahauddin Dagar

Kalyanakrishna Bhagavatar

Doreswamy Iyengar

Asad Ali Khan

Name Name
Sarod stringed instrument
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan Sharan Rani Hint: Bollywood
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan Mukesh Sharma

Ustad Alauddin Khan Vasant Rai

Hafiz Ali Khan Biswajit Roy Chaudhury

Name Name Sarangi stringed instrument

Pandit Inderlal Ashique Ali Khan

Hint
Pandit Ramnarayanji Shakoor Khan

Aruna Narayan Kale Ustad Bendu Khan

Santosh Mishra
Name Name
Violin stringed instrument
Dr. Smt. N. Rajam Malaikkottai Govindaswamy
Pillai
Vishnu Gobind Jog T. N. Krishnan

L. Subramaniam M. S. Gopalakrishnan

Sangeeta Shankar Lalgudi Jayaraman

Name Name
Tabla percussion instrument
Zakir Hussain Ustad Allarakha Qureshi

Ustad Shafat Ahmed Khan Kishan Maharaj Hint

Gudai Maharaj Faiyaz Khan

Swapan Chaudhury

Name Name Flute woodwind instrument

Pannalal Ghosh Rajendra Prasanna

Hint
Hari Prasad Rajendra Kulkarni
Chaurasia
Raghunath Seth Prakash Saxena

Sikkil Kunjumani Sikkil Neela

Name Shehnai wind instrument

Ustad Bismillah Khan

Daya Shankar Hint: Shaadi

Hari Singh
Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan
Shailesh Bhagwat
Name Santoor stringed instrument

Pandit Shivkumar Sharma Hint

Tarun Bhattacharya
Bhajan Sopori
Rahul Sharma

Name Harmonium
Shri Purushottam Walawalkar stringed instrument

Appa Jalgaonkar

Name Jal Tarang

percussion
Jagdish Mohan instrument

Ghasiram Nirmal
Ram Swaroop Prabhakar

Name
Mandolin
U. Srinivas stringed instrument

Khagen Dey
Snehashish Mozumder

Name
Mridangam
Thakur Bhikam Singh percussion instrument
Palghat R. Raghu
T. K. Murthy
Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
Karaikudi Mani

Name Pakhavaj
Ustad Rehman Khan percussion instrument
Gopal Das
Chhatrapati Singh
Ramakant Pathak
 Others
Name Instrument
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt Mohan veena
Imrat Khan Surbahar
Annapurna Devi Surbahar
T. H. Vinayakram Ghatam
Jnan Prakash Ghosh Harmonium and Tabla
Abdul Latif Khan Sitar, Santoor, Tabla and Sarangi
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar Rudra Veena