Some Famous Musicians With Their Musical Instruments
Instruments | Important Musicians |
Stringed Instruments | |
Been | Asad Ali Khan, Zia Moinuddin Khan |
Sitar | Ravi Shankar, Mustaq Ali Khan, Vilayat Khan, Nikhil Bannerji |
Sarod | Hafiz Khan, Amjad Ali khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Alauddin Khan |
Sarangi | Ustad Binda Khan |
Violin | Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu, T. Chowdiah, V.G. Jog, Gajananrao Joshi, G. Jayaraman, Govind Swami Pillai, Smt N. Rajan, T.N. Krishna, L. Subramaniam |
Veena | Veena Dhanammal, Chittibabu, Doraiswamy lyengar,
S. Balchandran, Kalyan Krishna Bhagwatar, Emani Sankara Shastri |
Santoor | Shiv Kumar Sharma |
Surbahar | Annapurna, Sajjad Hussain |
Wind Instruments | |
Flute | N. Ramani, Hariprasad Chaurasia, T.R. Mahalingam, Pannalai Ghosh |
Shehnai | Bismillah Khan |
Nadaswaram | Sheikh Chinna Moula, Rajaratnam Pillai, Neeru Swami Pillai |
Percussion Instruments | |
Mridangam | Palghat Mani Iyer, Karaikudi R. mani, Palghat Raghu |
Tabla | Allarakha, Zakir Hussain, Pandit Samta Prasad, Latif Khan, Gudai Maharaj, Kumar Bose |
Pakhawaj | Pandit Ayodhya Prasad, Baba Ram Shankar Pagaldas, Gopal Das |
Kanjira | Pudukkotai Dakshinamurthi Pillai |
Folk Instruments | |
Wind | Ayarkuzha, Alugoyya, Mugudi, Shringa or Kombu , Alghoza |
Percussion | Nagara, Sudha Maddalam,
Chenda, Dhol, Khol, Tumbaknari, Urumi, Kuruk, Pambai, Kirikatti, Damaru, Udukku, Timila, Duff |
Instruments Vocalists | |
Carnatic tradition | M.S. Subbulakshrni, M.L. Vasantakumari, Balamuralikrishna, M.D. Ramananthan, ChembaiVaidyanatha Bhagavathar, G.N. Balasubramaniam, Ariyakudi Ramanujan Iyengar |
Hindustani tradition | Parveen Sultana, Naina Devi, Girija Devi, Siddheswari , Bhimsen Joshi, Mallikarjun Mansur, Gangubai Hangal, Kumar Gandharava, Basavaraj Rajguru, Faiyyaz Khan, pandit Jasraj |
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