Famous Musical Instruments and their Exponents

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• SITAR: 
  
  
  

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

• TABLA:
  
  
  

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

• FLUTE:

Pannalal Ghosh,Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Raghunath Seth, B.Kunjumani, Rajendra Prasanna, Rajendra Kulkarni, Prakash Saxena etc.

• SAROD:

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

• SHEHNAI:
  
  
  

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

• VIOLIN:
  
  
  

Dr. Smt. N. Rajan, Vishnu Gobind (VG) Jog, L. Subramaniam, Sangitha Rajan, Kunakudi Vaidyanathan, Sisirkana DH Choudhury Lalgudi Jayaraman, R.P. Shastri, Suryadev Pawar, Govind Swami Pillai, T.N. Krishnan etc.

• VEENA:
  
  
  

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

• SANTOOR:
  
  
  

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

• PAKHAWAJ:
  
  
  

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

• RUDRA VEENA:

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

• MRIDANG:
  
  
  

Thakur Bhikam Singh, Palghat Raju, T.K. Murthy, U.K. Sivaram, K.R Mani etc.

• SARANGI:
  
  
  

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

• NADASWARAM:
  
  
  

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

• SIMPHONI:
  
  
  

Zubin Mehta.

• GUITAR:

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

• MANDOLIN:
  
  
  

U. Srinivas, Khagen Dey, Snehashish Mozumder, etc.

• VICHITRA VEENA: 
  
  
  

Ahmed Raza Khan, Abdul Aziz Khan etc.

• PIANO:
  
  
  

V. Balsara

• GHATAM::
  
  
  

T.H. Vinayakaram

• HARMONIUM:
  
  
  

Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Shri Purushottam, Walawalkar, Appa Jalgaonkar etc.

• JAL TARANG:
  
  
  

Himanshu Biswas, Jagdish Mohan, Ghasiram Nirmal, Ram Swaroop Prabhakar etc.

• SURBAHAR:
  
  
  

Imrat Khan, Anapurna Devi etc.

• ISRAJ:
  
  
  

Alauddin Khan.

• MOHAN VEENA:
  
  
  

Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt

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