Below is the list of famous musical instruments and their exponents (Players):
| S. No. | Musical Instruments | Exponents (Players) |
| 1. | Veena | M.K. Kayanakrishna Bhagavathar, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Arsad Ali Khan, Doraiswamy Iyengar, S. Balachander, Kalyan Krishna, Sadiq Ali Khan |
| 2. | Sarangi | Hanuman Mishra, Ram Narain, Ramavatar Shastri, Sabri Khan, Sultan Khan |
| 3. | Pakhawaj | Chatrapal Singh, Pagal Das, Gopladas Panse |
| 4. | Sarod | Brij Narayan, Amjad Ali Khan, Debashish Battacharya, Zaren Daroowala, Ali Akbar Khan, Allauddin Khan, Budhadev Dasgupta, Bahadur Khan, Sharan Rani |
| 5. | Flute | Subhash Kamat, Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Narayan Ghosh, T.R. Mahalingam, Pannalal Ghose |
| 6. | Clarionate | Sheikh Mohammad Arif |
| 7. | Violin | T.N. Krishnan, L. Shankar, N. Rajan, B. Sunder Rajan, Baluswamy Dikshitar, L. Subramanyam, D. Vinkataswami Naidu, Govindaswamy Pillai, Gajanan Rao Joshi, Kandadevi S. Alagiriswamy, Lalgudi G. Jayaraman, N. Rajam, Rajamanickam Pillai, Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan, V.G. Jog |
| 8. | Sitar | Uma Shankar Mishra, Rais Khan, Pandit Ravishankar, Sujjat Khan, Nishant Khan, Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, Debi Choudhary, Hari Shankar Bhattacharya, Nikhil Banerjee |
| 9. | Santoor | Shiv Kumar Sharma, Bhajan Sopori, Tarun Bhattacharya |
| 10. | Guitar | Barun Pal |
| 11. | Piano | Kaikhosm Shapurjee Sorabiji |
| 12. | Shehnai | Bismillah Khan, Bageshwari Gamar |
| 13. | Tabla | Alla Rakha Khan, Shafat Ahmed Khan, Ustad Sheikh Dawood, Abad Mistry, Zakir Hussain, Ahmed Thirkuwa, Kishan Maharaj, Shanta Prasad, Nikhil Ghosh |
| 14. | Mridangam | Umayalpuram K. Sevaram |
