Tantu Vadya
Chordophones
Stringed instruments
Sushir Vadya
Sivamani Aerophones
Wind instruments
Ananda Gopal Bandopadhyay Drums Bharat Ratna awardee - 1999
Avanaddha Vadya
Shubhankar Banerjee total 4 Pt. Ravi Shankar
1st Indian to receive Grammy
Membranophone Percussion instruments For ‘West meets East’ - In 1968
Annapurna Devi
Have stretched membrane of animal skin to
Anushka Shankar
Imrat Khan vibrate to produce sound when struck
Surbahar Vilayat Khan
Wahid Khan Ghana Vadya
Idiophone
TN Krishna Imrat Khan
Imdad Khan It vibrates when struck
Sitar
Nagai Muralidharan Nikhil Banerjee
Lalgudi Gopala Iyer Violin Shahid Parvez
Ustad Alla Rakha
An awardee of Madras Music Budhaditya Mukherjee
Mohanan Chandrashekhar
Academy’s Kalanidhi Padma Bhushan - 2002
V.K. Sivaraman Pt. Harashankar Bhattacharya
Dwaraka Venkataswamy Naidu Padma Vibhushan - 2023
Rajna Swaminathan Mridangam Arvind Parikh
3 Grammy Awards - 2024
Padma Vibhushan awardee Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman Zakir Hussain
for ‘Pashto’/‘As we speak’
Shankar Mahadevan for ‘This Moment’
Kunal Patil
Tota Ram Sharma Tabla Bickram Ghosh, Nikhil Ghosh Padma Bhushan awardee
Benaras Gharana
Pt. Bhavani Shankar Pakhawaj
Drum
Ustad Rahman Khan
Percussion instrument Ananda Gopal Bandopadhyay
Receipt of Global Indian Music Award
Kelucharan Mohapatra
TH Vinaykram
Music composer and an Indian Classical player
Padma Bhushan awardee
in 2014
Vikku Vinaykram Ghatam Musical Anokhelal Mishra
E M Subramaniyam
T N Rajrathinam Pillai
Instruments Pt. Swapan Choudhary
Hariprasad Chaurasiya
other name -
Flute Pannalal Ghosh
Amal Jyoti Ghosh
Neeru Swami Pillai Nadaswaram
Also Mangala Vadya - Sushir
Sheikh Chinna Maulana Rajendra Prasanna
Sadik Ali Khan Played Shehnai in Red Fort
- 1st Independence Rajendra Kulkarni
Asad Ali Khan Rudra Veena
Bismillah Khan Has received all the 4 highest Civilian Awards
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
Samdragupta (Gupta Dynasty) played Veena Padma Vibhushan 1980
depicted in coins
Bharat Ratna 2001
Aurangzeb also played Veena Veena Shehnai
Raghunath Prasanna also plays flute
Pt. Ram Narayan S. Balachander
S. Ballesh
Ustad Sabri Khan
Ali Ahmed
Bundu Khan
Bageswari Quamar Alauddin Khan
Sarangi
Shakoor Khan
Krishna Chaudhary Amjad Ali Khan
Shivkumar Sharma Maihar Gharana
Abdul Latif Khan
Ali Akbar Khan
Ustad Sultan Khan
Rahul Sharma Sarod
Santoor Hafiz Ali Khan
Ulhas Bapat
Rajeev Taranath Disciple of Ali Akbar Khan
Bhajan Sapori
Buddhadev Dasgupta