Veena

    K. R. Kumaraswamy lyer, Doraiswami lyengar

Flute

Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Pannalal Ghose, T. R. Mahalingam

Shehnal

    Bismillah Khan

Violin

Baluswamy Dikshitar, Gajanan Rao Joshi, Lalgudi G. Jayaraman, M. S. Gopala krishnan, Mysore T. Chowdiah, T. N. Krishnan

Tabla

Alla Rakha Khan, Kishan Maharaj, Nikhil Ghosh, Zakir Hussain

Sarod

    Ali Akbar Khan, Allaudin Khan, Amjad Ali Khan, Buddhadev Dasgupta, Bahadur Khan, Sharan Rani, Zarin S. Sharma