| Santoor | Pt Shiv Kumar Sharma, Bhajan Sopori |
| Flute | Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Pannalal Ghosh |
| Tabla | Zakir Hussain, Allah Rakha, Sabir Khan, Pt. Kishan Maharaj, Pt. Jnan Prakash Ghosh, Sandeep Das |
| Sarod | Allauddin Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Amjad Ali Khan, Buddhadev Das Gupta |
| Shehnai | Bismillah Khan, Krishna Ram Chaudhary, Ali Ahmad Hussain |
| Sitar | Pt Ravi Shankar, Shahid Parvez Khan, Budhaditya Mukherjee, Anushka Shankar |
| Saarangi | Shakoor Khan, Pt Ram Narayan, Ramesh Mishra, Sultan Khan |
| Veena | Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, Ayyagari Syamasundaram, Doraiswamy Iyengar |
| Rudra Veena | Asad Ali Khan |
| Mohan Veena | Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhat (inventor of Mohan Veena) |
| Violin | M.S. Gopalakrishnan, Smt M. Rajam, N.R. Muralidharan, M. Chandrasekharan, V.G. Jog, Lalgudi Jayaraman |
| Ghatam | T.H. Vinayakram, E.M. Subramaniam |
| Mridangam | K.V. Prasad, S.V. Rajarao, Umalayapuram Sivaraman |
| Mandolin | U Srinivas |
| Pakhawaj | Totaram Sharma |
| Surbahaar | Annapurna Devi |
| Guitar | Braj Bhushan Kabra |
| Vocalist (Carnatic Music) | S. Radhakrishna Srinivasa Iyer, M.S. Subbulakshmi, M. Balamuralikrishna, D. K. Pattammal, Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, S Pinakapani |
| Vocalist (Hindustani Music) | Kumar Gandharva, Mallikarjun Bheemarayappa Mansur, Bhimsen Joshi, Pandit Jasraj, Gangubai Hangal, Kishori Amonkar, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar, Chhannu Lal Mishra, Ramakant Gundecha, Umakant Gundecha, Rajan and Sajan Mishra |
