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.
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Bowed strings
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- Lalgudi Jayaraman{{cite web|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music/lalgudi-jayaraman-virtuoso-who-made-violin-sing-is-no-more/article4644069.ece|title=Lalgudi Jayaraman, virtuoso who made violin sing, is no more|last=Kolappan|first=B.|date=April 22, 2013}}
- 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
- Delhi P. Sunder Rajan
- B. Sasikumar
- Gingger Shankar
- Jyotsna Srikanth
- Balabhaskar
- Abhijith P. S. Nair
- Ambi Subramaniam
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Plucked strings
=[[Veena]]=
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- Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer
- Challapally Chitti Babu
- Emani Sankara Sastry
- S. Balachander
- Doraiswamy Iyengar
- E. Gayathri
- Jayanthi Kumaresh
- Kalpakam Swaminathan
- Ranganayaki Rajagopalan
- Rajhesh Vaidhya
- Revathy Krishna
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=[[Mandolin]]=
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=[[Guitar]]=
Winds
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- T. R. Mahalingam
- N. Ramani
- Prapancham Sitaram
- Shashank
- K. Bhaskaran
- T. Viswanathan
- B. Shankar Rao
- Tiruchy L. Saravanan
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=[[Nadaswaram]]=
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Percussions
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- Palghat Mani Iyer
- Palghat R. Raghu
- Vellore G. Ramabhadran
- Mavelikkara Velukkutty Nair
- Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
- Trichy Sankaran
- 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
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Other
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=[[Jaltarang]]=
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See also
{{Portal|India|Music}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.carnatic.com/ Information on Carnatic music]
- {{cite web | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015034737/http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/lyrics.html | archivedate=15 October 2007 | url=http://www.geocities.com/promiserani2/lyrics.html | title= karnATik | accessdate=7 July 2020}} (resource for lyrics of a number of Carnatic kritis)
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