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. Bowed strings Violin Lalgudi Jayaraman 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 Avaneeswaram S R Vinu Delhi P. Sunder Rajan B. Sasikumar Gingger Shankar Jyotsna Srikanth Balabhaskar Abhijith P. S. Nair Ambi Subramaniam Plucked strings Veena 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 Mandolin U. Srinivas Chitra veena N. Ravikiran Guitar R. Prasanna Sukumar Prasad Winds Venu T. R. Mahalingam N. Ramani Prapancham Sitaram Shashank K. Bhaskaran T. Viswanathan B. Shankar Rao Tiruchy L. Saravanan Nadaswaram T.N. Rajarathnam Pillai Namagiripettai Krishnan Sheik Chinna Moulana Sheik Mahaboob Subhani Saxophone Kadri Gopalnath Percussions Piano Anil Srinivasan Mridangam 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 Ghatam T. H. "Vikku" Vinayakram Ghatam Udupa Kanjira G. Harishankar V. Selvaganesh Thavil Haridwaramangalam A. K. Palanivel Morsing (jaw harp) Srirangam Kannan Other Idakka Tripunithura Krishnadas Jaltarang Anayampatti S. Ganesan Seethalakshmi Doraiswamy Santoor R. Visweswaran See also Carnatic music South India References External links Information on Carnatic music (resource for lyrics of a number of Carnatic kritis) Indian classical Instrumentalists Lists of musicians by genre India music-related lists