* Flute - Hari Prasad Chaurasia, T. R. Mahalingam, Pannalal Ghose.
* Tabla - Alla Rakha Khan, Zakir Hussain, Kishan Maharaj, Nikhil Ghosh.
* Violin - T. N. Krishnan, Baluswamy Dikshitar, Lalgudi G. Jayaraman, M. S. Gopala krishnan, Gajanan Rao Joshi, Mysore T. Chowdiah.
* Veena - K. R. Kumaraswamy lyer, Doraiswami lyengar.
* Sarod - Ali Akbar Khan, Allaudin Khan, Amjad Ali Khan, Buddhadev Dasgupta, Bahadur Khan, Sharan Rani, Zarin S. Sharma.
* Shehnai - Bismillah Khan.
* Sitar - Nikhil Banerjee, Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan, Hara Shankar Bhattacharya.
