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Pandit Manohar Chimote (27 March 1929 - 9 September 2012) was a prominent Samvadini player. It will be not be an exaggeration to say that it was Pandit Manohar Chimote who laid the foundation of solo harmonium - Samvadini playing in the field of Hindustani Classical Music. He made it his life mission to elevate harmonium – an instrument of Western import – to a level of full fledged of solo instrument on par with the sitar, the sarod. the flute and shehnai. Having Indianised harmonium, he renamed it as SAMVADINI in early seventies. 

Pt. Pandharinath Ganadhar Nageshkar was born on 16th March 1913, at Nagoshi (Goa). He had a great interest in Tabla since his childhood. He took his initial training at home, under his maternal uncle, Shri Ganpatrao Nageshkar. Subsequently, he trained under Shri Vallemama (Shri Yashwantrao Vitthal Bandivdekar), Ustad Anwar Hussain Khan (Ustad Amir Hussain Khan’s disciple), Shri Jatin Baksh (Roshanara Begum’s Tabla player) and Shri Subrao Mama Ankolikar. He gained some new insights on the instrument from Shri Khaprumama Parvatkar.

Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna (6 July 1930 – 22 November 2016) was an Indian Carnatic vocalist, musician, multi-instrumentalist, playback singer, composer, and character actor.

Ustad Faiyaz Khan (alternative spelling Fiyaz Khan) (1934 – 12 November 2014) was a Tabla Maestro of international repute.

Pandit Dhruba Ghosh (25 October 1957 - 10 July 2017) was an Eminent Sarangi Maestro and a brilliant composer. He was son of Legendary Tabla Maestro Pandit Nikhil Ghosh and brother of eminent Tabla and Sitar Maestro Pandit Nayan Ghosh.

A short highlight on his timeline :

Dhruba was the inheritor of the tradition of his masters, his father Pandit Nikhil Ghosh, the famed percussionist and pedagogue, the veteran vocalist-composer Pandit Dinkar Kaikini, and the renowned sarangi maestro Ustad Sagiruddin Khan of the legendary Bundu Khan style of Delhi.

Begum Parveen Sultana (born 10 July 1950) is an Assamese Hindustani classical singer of the Patiala Gharana. Parveen was born at Daccapatty in Nagaoncity, Assam, India to Ikramul Mazid of Afghanistan and Maroofa Begum of Iran.

Born on 11 July 1935 in Udupi, Karnataka, Pt. Indudhar Nirody belongs to the Agra gharana; he received his training in music from many gurus such as Shri. Pitre Rama Rao, Shri. Gurudatt Heblekar, Pt. S. C. R Bhatt, Pt. K. G. Ginde, Pt. Dinkar Kaikini and Pt. Chidanand Nagarkar.

Pandit Nandan Mehta (26 February 1942 – 26 March 2010) was an Indian Tabla player and music teacher from Ahmedabad who belonged to the Benaras Gharana of Hindustani classical music. He established Saptak School of Music and started Saptak Annual Festival of Music in 1980.

• Early life : Nandan Mehta was born on 26 February 1942 to Yashodhar Mehta, a writer and lawyer, and Vasumati, a painter and daughter of Sir Chinubhai Baronet. His grandfather Narmadashanker Mehta was a reputed Vedanta scholar.

Pandit Mukul Shivputra (born 25 March 1956) (previously known as Mukul Komkalimath) is a Hindustani Classical Vocalist of the Gwalior Gharana and the son and foremost disciple of Pt. Kumar Gandharva.

• Early life and training :
Born in Bhopal to Bhanumati Komkalimath and Pt. Kumar Gandharva, Pt. Shivputra took to musical training early on from his father. He continued his musical education in Dhrupad and Dhamar with Pt. K. G. Ginde and in Carnatic Music with M. D. Ramanathan.

Pandit Wamanrao Sadolikar (16 September 1907 - 25 March 1991) was a Hindustani Classical Vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana founded by his guru, Ustad Alladiya Khan.
• Early life :
Pandit Wamanrao Sadolikar was born into a family of music lovers in Kolhapur. As a teenager, he studied Classical Music under Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar of the Gwalior Gharana.
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