Trailblazers of Technology: Instruments and Their Exponents
Veena - String

K. R. Kumaraswamy Iyer

Doraiswami Iyenger

Emani Sankara Sastry

Gaddam Sammaiah

Jayanthi Kumaresh

 R Visweswaran

 Sahana SV

K. S. Narayanaswamy

Tabla - Percussion

Kishan Maharaj

Alla Rakha Khan,

Zakir Hussain, 

Nikhil Ghosh

Samta Prasad - or Gudai Maharaj

Vijay Ghate

Swapan Chaudhuri

Ahmed Jan Thirakwa

Suresh Talwalkar

Santoor - String

Tarun Bhattacharya

Bhajan Sopori

Ulhas Bapat

shiv kumar sharma

Satish Vyas (musician)

Sitar - String

Ravi Shankar

Nikhil Banerjee,

Hara Shankar Bhattacharya,

Vilayat Khan

Abdul Halif Zafar Khan

Arvind Parikh

Budhaditya Mukherjee

manilala nag

Debu Chaudhuri

Shivnath Mishra

 Violin -  String

Gajanan Rao Joshi

Baluswamy Dikshitar

M. S. Gopala Krishnan

Lalgudi G. 

T. N. Krishnan

N. Rajam

Laxmi nanrayan subrimaniyam

Mysore T. Chowdiah

Lalgudi Jayaraman

Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan

A Kanyakumari

Annavarapu Rama Swamy

HK Venkataram

Sarangi - String 

Ghulam Ali Sabir Khan

Suhali Yusuf Khan,

Sultan Khan, 

Ustad Binda Khan

Ram Narayan

sabri khan

Abdul Latif Khan

Sarod - String

Ali Akbar Khan

Zarin S Sharma

Sharan Rani

Amjad Ali Khan

Amaan Ali

Ayaan Ali

Buddhadev Dasgupta

Bahadur Khan

Allaudin Khan

Hafiz Ali Khan

Rajeev Taranath

Mridang - Percussion

Arupathi Natesa Iyer

Tanjavoor Vaidyanath Iyer

Palghat Mani Iyer

Mavelikara Krishnankutty Nair

Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman

Ramanathapuram C. S. Murugabhoopathy

Nidumolu Sumathi

Nidumolu Sumathi

Neyveli Narayanan 

Akshay Anantapadmanabhan 

 Flute -  Woodwind

Hari Prasad Chaurasia

Pannalal Ghosh

Vijay Ragahav Rao - 

Dr. Natesan Ramani-

 Shehnai -  Double Reed Wind

 S. Balesh

Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan

Bismillah Khan

Anant lal


Harmonium -  Wind

Mehmood Dhaulpuri

Tulsidas Borkar

Paun Mata

Musafir Ram Bhardwaj


Pakhwaj - Percussion

Shankar Bapu Apegaonkar

Nadeswaran- Wind

Gosaveedu Shaik Hassan

Mandolin -  String

U SRINIVASAN


Two-Headed Drum

Purushottam Das

Rosem -  Wind

Thanga Darlong

Clarinet-  Wind 

A. K. C. Natarajan



Updated : 5 Aug 2025 ; 7:53 pm IST