Famous Musical Instruments and their Exponents

Sitar

Pt. Ravi Shankar, Nikhil Banerjee, Ustad Vilayat Khan, Shujaat Khan, Jaya Biswas,
Debu Choudhary, Nishaat Khan, Bande Hasan, Shahid Parvez, Uma Shankar Mishra,
Buddhaditya Mukherjee,Anushka Shankar etc.

1. Tabla

Ustad Shafat Ahmed Khan, Sapan Choudhary, Zakir Hussain, Latif Khan, Allah Rakha
Khan, Gudai Maharaj, Kishan Maharaj, Fayaz Khan, Sukhbinder Singh etc.

2. Flute

Pannalal Ghosh, Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Raghunath Seth, B. Kunjamani, N. Neela,

Rajendra Prasanna, Rajendra Kulkarni, Prakash Saxena etc

3. Sarod

Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Ustad Alauddin Khan, Hafiz Khan, Zarin
Daruwala, Mukesh Sharma, Chandan Rai, Biswajit Roy Chaudhury, Sharan Rani etc.

4. Shehnai

Ustad Bishmillah Khan, Daya Shankar, Jagannath, Hari Singh, Shailesh Bhagwat, Ali
Ahmad, Hussain Khan etc.

5. Violin

Dr. Smt. N. Rajan, Vishnu Gobind (VG) Jog, L. Subramaniam, Sangitha Rajan,
Kunakkadi Baidyanathan, Shishir Choudhary Lalgudi Jayaraman, R.P. Shastri, Suryadev
Pawar, Govind Swami Pillai, T.N. Krishnan etc.

6. Veena
S. Balachandran, Badruddin Dagar, Kalyan Krishna Bhagavatar, B. Doraiswami Iyengar
Gopal Krishna, Asad Ali etc.

7. Santoor

Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma, Tarun Bhattacharya, Bhajan Sopori, etc.

8. Pakhawaj

Ustad Rehman Khan, Gopal Das, Chhatrapati Singh, Ramakant Pathak, Arun Saiwal etc.

9. Rudra Veena

Ushtad Sadiq Ali Khan, Zia Moinuddin Dagar Asad Ali Khan, etc.

10. Mridang

Thakur Bhikam Singh, Palghat Raju, Dr. Jagdish Singh, T.K. Moorthy, U.K. Sivaram,
K.R. Mani etc.

11. Sarangi

Ustad Bendu Khan, Pt. Ramnarayanji, Aruna Kale, Santosh Mishra, Indralal, Ashiq Ali
Khan etc.

12. Nadaswaram

Sheikh Chinna Maulana, Rajaratna Pillai, Niru Swami Pillai, N. Krishna etc.

13. Simphoni

Zubin Mehta.

14. Guitar
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Jatin Mazumdar, Brij Bhushan Kabra, Sri Krishna Nalin, Keshav
Jalegaonkar etc.

15. Mandolin

U. Srinivas, Khagen Dey, Nagen Dey, etc.A