List of Carnatic instrumentalists
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This is a list of Carnatic instrumentalists: musicians famous for playing the carnatic music of South India. Musicians are listed by the instrument they have played.
Bowed strings
Violin
Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu playing a violin
- Lalgudi Jayaraman
- Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan
- Tirumakudalu Chowdiah
- Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu
- M. S. Gopalakrishnan
- T. N. Krishnan
- H.K. Venkatram
- L. Vaidyanathan
- L. Subramaniam
- L. Shankar
- Mysore brothers - Mysore Nagaraj & Dr. Mysore Manjunath
- Embar Kannan
- G. J. R. Krishnan and Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi
- Ragini Shankar
- A. Kanyakumari
- Ganesh and Kumaresh
- M. Narmadha
- Vittal Ramamurthy
- V. V. Ravi
- Nedumangad Sivanandan
- Avaneeswaram S R Vinu
- Delhi P. Sunder Rajan
- B. Sasikumar
- Gingger Shankar
- Jyotsna Srikanth
- Balabhaskar
- Abhijith P. S. Nair
- Ambi Subramaniam
Plucked strings
Veena
Mandolin
U. Srinivas playing a mandolin
Chitra veena
Guitar
Winds
Venu
Nadaswaram
Sheik Chinna Moulana with a Nadaswaram
- T.N. Rajarathnam Pillai
- Namagiripettai Krishnan
- Sheik Chinna Moulana
- Sheik Mahaboob Subhani
Saxophone
Percussions
Piano
Mridangam
- Palghat Mani Iyer
- Palghat R. Raghu
- Vellore G. Ramabhadran
- Mavelikkara Velukkutty Nair
- Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
- Trichy Sankaran
- T S Nandakumar
- Karaikudi Mani
- Ramnad V. Raghavan
- T. Ranganathan
- Palani Subramaniam Pillai
- Mannargudi Easwaran
- Guruvayur Dorai
- T. V. Gopalakrishnan
- Ramesh Srinivasan
- Patri Satish Kumar
- Erickavu N. Sunil
- Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam
Ghatam
- T. H. "Vikku" Vinayakram
- Ghatam Udupa
Kanjira
Thavil
Morsing (jaw harp)
Srirangam Kannan playing a morsing
Other
Idakka
Jaltarang
- Anayampatti S. Ganesan
- Seethalakshmi Doraiswamy
Santoor
See also
References
External links
- Information on Carnatic music
- "karnATik". Archived from the original on 15 October 2007. Retrieved 7 July 2020. (resource for lyrics of a number of Carnatic kritis)
- Indian classical Instrumentalists
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