FAMOUS MUSICIANS & INSTRUMENTS

SITAR ARANGI
stringed instrument Stringed instrument
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Pandit Inderlal

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Buddhaditya Mukherjee
Nikhil Banerjee Ashique Ali Khan
Ustad Bande Hassan Khan Pandit Ramnarayanji
Shahid Parvez Shakoor Khan
Ustad Vilayat Khan Aruna Narayan Kale
Uma Shankar Mishra Ustad Bendu Khan
Nishaat Khan Santosh Mishra
Pt. Ravi Shankar
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Jaya Biswas VIOLIN

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Anoushka Shankar stringed instrument
Debu Chaudhuri Dr. Smt. N. Rajam
Shujaat Khan Malaikkottai Govindaswamy Pillai
Vishnu Gobind Jog
VEENA T. N. Krishnan
Stringed instrument L. Subramaniam
S. Balachander M. S. Gopalakrishnan
Bahauddin Dagar Sangeeta Shankar
Lalgudi Jayaraman
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Kalyanakrishna Bhagavatar

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Doreswamy Iyengar
Asad Ali Khan TABLA
Percussion instrument
SAROD Zakir Hussain
Stringed instrument Ustad Allarakha Qureshi
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan Ustad Shafat Ahmed Khan
Sharan Rani Kishan Maharaj
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan Gudai Maharaj
Mukesh Sharma Faiyaz Khan
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Swapan Chaudhury
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Ustad Alauddin Khan

Vasant Rai
Hafiz Ali Khan FLUTE
Biswajit Roy Chaudhury woodwind instrument
Pannalal Ghosh
Rajendra Prasanna
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Rajendra Kulkarni Snehashish Mozumder
Raghunath Seth
Prakash Saxena MRIDANGAM
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Sikkil Kunjumani Percussion instrument
Sikkil Neela Thakur Bhikam Singh
Palghat R. Raghu
SHEHNAI T. K. Murthy
Wind instrument Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
Ustad Bismillah Khan Karaikudi Mani
Daya Shankar
Hari Singh PAKHAVAJ
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Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan Percussion instrument
Shailesh Bhagwat Ustad Rehman Khan
Gopal Das
SANTOOR Chhatrapati Singh
Stringed instrument Ramakant Pathak
Pandit Shivkumar Sharma
Tarun Bhattacharya Others
Bhajan Sopori Name Instrument
Rahul Sharma Vishwa Mohan Bhatt Mohan veena
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Imrat Khan Surbahar

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HARMONIUM Annapurna Devi Surbahar
Stringed instrument T. H. Vinayakram Ghatam
Shri Purushottam Walawalkar Jnan Prakash Ghosh Harmonium
Appa Jalgaonkar and Tabla
Abdul Latif Khan Sitar, Santoor,
JAL TARANG Tabla and Sarangi
Percussion instrument Zia Mohiuddin Dagar Rudra Veena
Jagdish Mohan
Ghasiram Nirmal
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Ram Swaroop Prabhakar

MANDOLIN
Stringed instrument
U. Srinivas
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 4. Which of the following is a famous Violinist?
IMPORTANT GHARANA 1.Nagai R Muralidharan 2. Sajjad Hussain
3. Anoushka Shankar
4.Krishna R Choudhary
Gwalior – Nathan Peerbaksh,
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5. Hariprasad Chaurasia is associated with which of

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Krishan Rao Shankar, the following instruments ?
Raja Bhaiya Punchwale 1.Sarod 2. Bansuri
3. Shehnai 4. Tabla
Agra – Haji Sujan Khan ,
6. Pandit Bhawani Shankar is a _________ player.
Sman Ghagge Khuda baksh , 1.tabla 2 tanpura
Vilayat Hussain Khan, 3. pakhawaj 4. dholak
7. Mohanan Chandrasekaran, an awardee of Madras
Faiyaz Khan
Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi, is a
Kirana- Abdul Karim , ________ player of carnatic classical music.
Sawai Gandharv, 1.violin 2. flute
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3. ghatam 4. mridangam
Gangoobai Hungal ,

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8. Ustad Zakir Hussain, Ustad Allah Rakha, Ustad Sabir
Pundit Bheemsen Joshi, Khan, pt. Kishan Maharaj are known for which of
Heerabai, Suresh Babumon , the following instruments?
1.Mandolin 2. Surbahar
Badodekar
3. Tabla 4. Mohan Veena
Mewati- Ghagge Nazir Khan , 9. Who among the following is associated with the
Pundit Jashraj Tabla?
1.Zakir Hussain 2. Sultan Khan
Jaipur – Alladiya Khan ,
3. Ajmad Ali Khan 4. Hariprasad Chaurasia
Mallikarjun Mansoor , 10. S Balachander a famous musician from India is
Kishori Amolkar known for playing which of the following instru-
ments?
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Rampur – Ustad Inayat Husain Khan ,

1.Sitar 2. Tabla

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Nisaar Husain Khan , 3. Veena 4. Ghatam
Rasheed Khan 11. Sheikh Chinna Moula was an exponent of the
______, a musical instrument.
Patiala – Ali Baksh Pafteh Ali ,
1.veena 2. sitar
Bade Gulab Ali 3. mandolin 4. nadaswaram
12. Bickram Ghosh, a recipient of Global Indian Music
1. Who among the following is credited with single- Award, is a music composer and an Indian classical
handedly making the Santoor a popular classical in- _________ player.
strument? 1.sarangi 2. tabla
1.Ulhas Bapat 2. Rahul Sharma 3. bansuri 4. tanpura
3. Shiv Kumar Sharma 4. Bhajan Sopori 13. Padma Vibhushan awardee Umayalpuram K.
Sivaraman is a ________ player.
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2. EM Subramaniam, was an exponent of the ______,

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a musical instrument . 1.veena 2. mridangam

1.guitar 2.ghatam 3. tabla 4. violin
3. mandolin 4. pakhawaj 14. Rajeev Taranath , a disciple of Ali Akbar Khan , is a
3. Rajeev Janardan is an Indian classical ________ _______ player.
player of the Imdadkhani gharana. 1.flute 2. santoor
1.flute 2. harmonium 3. tabla 4. sarod
3. tabla 4. sitar 15. Ustad Bismillah Khan is best known for playing
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 which of the following instruments? 3. Sarangi 4. Mridangam
1.Sitar 2. Shehnai 27. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, a renowned musician from
3. Tambura 4. Sarod India is known for playing which of the following
16. Pandit Ananda Gopal Bandopadhyay was a ______ instruments?
player of the Benaras Gharana. 1.Veena 2. Sarod
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1.tabla 2. sarod 3. Sarangi 4. Jaltarang
3. sarangi 4. sitar 28. Which of the following Carnatic instruments is per-
17. Famous musician Shakoor Khan was associated with formed by Rajna Swaminathan?
which of the following musical instruments? 1.Flute 2. Violin
1.Santoor 2. Sarangi 3. Mridangam 4. Veena
3. Sitar 4. Sarod 29. Which renowned Tabla player's son is also a famous
18. Ustad Allah Rakha is famous for his contribution to tabla player who has collaborated with international
playing which of the following instruments in Indian bands ?
music? 1.Ustad Bismillah Khan
1.Santoor 2. Veena 2.Ustad Allah Rakha
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3. Tabla 4. Ghatam 3. Ustad Rashid Khan

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19. Which of the following pairs is NOT correctly 4. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
matched. 30. Who among the following is known as a Sarangi in-
1.Ustad Ali Akbar Khan - Sarode strumentalist?
2. Miya Tansen - one of the nine jewels 1.T Brinda 2. T.N. Krishan
3. Ustad Bismillah Khan - Sitar 3. T.M. Krishna 4. Ustad Bundu Khan
4. Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia - Bamboo flute 31. Which of the following Odissi dancers is also a mas-
20. Totaram Sharma is an exponent of ________. ter of percussion instruments like Mridangam,
1.flute 2. ghatam Pakhawaj, and Tabla?
3. Pakhawaj 4. Nadaswaram 1.Sujata Mohapatra 2. Ramani Ranjan Jena
21. Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram, an Indian percus- 3. Kelucharan Mohapatra 4. Sudhakar Sahoo
sionist, is known for popularizing which of the fol- 32. Padma Bhushan awardee Ustad Sabri Khan was a
lowing musical instruments ? ________ player.
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1.Sitar 2. Ghatam 1.Sarangi 2. Sarod

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3. Tabla 4. Sarangi 3. Flute 4. Santoor
22. Sheikh Chinna Moulana used to play which of the 33. Padma Bhushan awardee Buddhadev Das Gupta was
following instruments? an Indian classical _______ player.
1.Ghatam 2. Tabla 1.tabla 2.sarangi
3. Nadaswaram 4. Mridangam 3.tambura 4.sarod
23. Which of the following instruments is played by 34. Who among the following is NOT a Veena player?
Anokhelal Mishra? 1.Jasraj 2. Veenai Dhanammal
1.Tabla 2. Sarod 3. Surbahar 4. Shehnai 3. Sundaram Balachander 4. Jayanthi Kumaresh
24. Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan was renowned a 35. Who among the following is India's only publicly
_______. well-known woman Shehnai Player ?
1.tabla player 2.classical player 1.Binodini Dasi 2. Bagheshwari Qamar
3.harmonium player 4.sarod player 3. Gauhar Jaan 4. Rasoolan Bai
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25. Vilayat Khan is associated with which musical instru- 36. Pandit Shivkumar Sharma is a classical _______
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ments? player.
1.Santoor 2. Tabla 1.flute 2.santoor
3. Sitar 4. Bansuri 3.tabla 4.shehnai
26. Which of the following instruments is played by P 37. Who among the following is a Sitar Player?
Mani Iyer ? 1.Sultan Khan 2. Shahid Parvez
1.Mandolin 2. Violin 3. Shivkumar Sharma 4. Sheikh Chinna Moulana

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 38. Who among the following is the best Veena player in 1.bansuri 2. sarod
Hindustani Classical music? 3. Veena 4. tabla
1.Sultan Khan 2. Inayat Hussain Khan 51. Which of the following pairs is INCORRECT?
3. Ustad Asad Ali Khan 4. Ustad Rashid Khan 1.Kumar Gandharva - Guitar
39. Who among the following is NOT a tabla player? 2. Zia Mohiuddin Dagar - Rudra Veena
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1.Tanmoy Bose 2. Bickram Ghosh 3. Bombay Jayashri - Vocalist
3. G N Balasubramaniam 4. Swapan Chaudhari 4. Kadri Gopalnath - Saxophone
40. With which musical instrument can you associate the 52. A Ghatam is a _________.
name of Ali Akbar Khan? 1.large, narrow-mouthed earthenware pot used
1.Been 2. Sarod as a percussion instrument
3. Rudra Veena 4. Sarangi 2. small handheld drum that resembles a tambourine
41. Padma Bhushan awardee pandit Nikhil Jyoti Ghosh 3. percussion instrument made of leather and
was a _______ player. Jackwood
1.harmonium 2. tabla 4. wind instrument made of wood and metal
3. flute 4. sarod 53. Which of the following musical instruments did
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42. Ustad Allah Rakha was famous for playing the Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu play ?

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_________. 1.Nadaswaram 2. Violin
1.bansuri 2. tabla 3. Veena 4. Mandolin
3. sitar 4. sarod 54. Which of the following is NOT a percussion instru-
43. Who among the following is an outstanding Player to ment?
have mastered the Surbahar instrument? 1.Mridangam 2. Tabla
1.Ali Akbar Khan 2. Ustad Imarat Khan 3. Sarod 4. Ghatam
3. Allauddin Khan 4. Abdul Karim Khan 55. Which of the following musical instruments is also
44. Pandit Ravi Shankar was one of the best known play- known as a ' Mangal Vaidya' ?
ers of the ______. 1.Damaru 2. Santoor
1.tabla 2. sarod 3. Shehnai 4. Tabla
3. sitar 4. Sarangi 56. A distinct 'Dhrupad style' is associated with the
45. Padma Bhushan awardee Vikku Vinayakram is a _______ gharana .
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_________ player . 1.Ajrada 2. Nathdwara

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1.Ghatam 2. Pakhawaj 3. Jafarkhani 4. Bishnupur
3. Dholak 4. Tabla 57. Which of the following instruments is normally played
46. Pandit Pannalal Ghosh also known as Amal Jyoti in a vertical position and with an arched bow ?
Ghosh , was a ______ player and composer. 1.Shehnai 2. Sitar
1.bansuri 2. sarod 3. Sarangi 4. Veena
3. tabla 4. sitar 58. In which state is Ponu Yoksi , a sword- like instru-
47. Asad Ali Khan is a maestro of playing _________. ment, used during ceremonial dances performed by
1.shehnai 2.rudra Veena priests?
3.tabla 4.sitar 1.Uttar Pradesh 2. Himachal Pradesh
48. Lalgudi Gopala Iyer Jayaraman used to play which 3. Madhya Pradesh 4. Arunachal Pradesh
of the following instruments? 59. The Kamaicha is a bowed flute player by the
1.Violin 2. Flute Manganiars of:
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3. Harmonium 4. Mridangam 1.West Kerala 2. West Rajasthan

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49. Hafiz Ali Khan was an Indian _______ player of the 3. West Bihar 4. West Goa
Bangash gharana. 60. 'Chinkara' is a __________ musical instrument popu-
1.sarod 2. santoor lar in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
3. flute 4. Sarangi 1.wind 2. plate
50. Pandit Swapan Chaudhari is associated with 3. membrane 4. stringed
_________ instrument. 61. The traditional binding instrument called 'Pena' is

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 related to which of the following States? 73. Hari Prasad Chaurasia, an Indian flutist, is associ-
1.Manipur 2. Goa ated with which of the following Music gharanas?
3. Sikkim 4. Kerala 1. Maihar 2. Rampur-Jaipur
62. Which of the following musical instruments is an ex- 3. Senia 4. Prasanna
ample of the stringed instruments played by the 74. Ustad Allauddin Khan, the legendary sarod player,
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Manganiars of West Rajasthan ? was from which of the following gharanas of music?
1.Manjira 2. Jhanj 1. Kasur-Patiala 2. Benaras
3. Kamaicha 4. Toomba 3. Maihar 4. Rangeela
63. The musical instrument 'kartal' from the state of 75. Chakri (Chhakri), is a collective song. It is a popular
Rajasthan comes under the category of ________. form of folk music of _________.
1.idiophones 2. electrophones 1. Bihar 2. West Bengal
3. membranophones 4. chordophones 3. Kashmir 4. Tamil Nadu
64. With which of the following musical instruments was 76.Ustad Bundu Khan and Santosh Mishra are the fa-
the musician Palghat Mani Iyer associated? mous players of which musical instrument:
1.Flute 2. Mridangam 1. sitar 2. shehnai
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65. The ________ is a single string musical instrument 77. The famous musician Satyadev Pawar is associated
made using bamboo and a gourd, mostly used by tra- with which musical instrument?
ditional folk singers in Maharashtra. 1. Violin 2. Shehnai
1.Esraj 2. Ekkalam 3. Veena 4. Sitar
3. Edakka 4. Ektara 78. The famous musician Ustad Sultan Khan is associ-
66. TH Vinayakram, a famous musician, is associated with ated with which musical instrument?
which musical instrument? 1. Drums 2. Sarangi
1. Ghatam 2. Mridangam 3. Tabla 4. Flute
3. Sarod 4. Tabla 79. In which year did Teejanbai, the well- known artist
67. Annapurna Devi, who was awarded the Padma of Pandavani music, win the Padma Vibhushan?
Bhushan, was a famous player of which of the fol- 1. 2020 2. 2019
lowing instruments? 3. 2021 4. 2017
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1. Sarod 2. Santoor 80. Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, a musical genius, learnt

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3. Veena 4. Surbahar which of the following gharanas of music from his
68. Who among the following was a famous sitar player? father at an early age?
1. Zakir Hussain 2. Hari Prasad Chaurasia 1. Benaras 2. Kasur Patiala
3. Raja Khan 4. Nikhil Banerjee 3. Jaipur-Atrauli 4. Gwalior
69. Who among the following is associated with the Tabla? 81. Which Gharana was propounded by Bade Fateh Ali
1. Pannalal Ghosh 2. Ronu Majumdar Khan and Ali Baksh Jarnail Khan?
3. Doreswamy Iyengar 4. Alla Rakha Khan 1. Gwalior Gharana 2. Agra Gharana
70. TR Mahalingam, a legendary musician, was known 3. Patiala Gharana 4. Bhendi Bazaar Gharana
for playing which of the following instruments? 82. Bhajan Sopori, a famous musician, is associated with
1. Shehnai 2. Flute which musical instrument?
3. Tabla 4. Pungi 1. Sarod 2. Shehnai
71. The famous musician, Appa Jalgaonkar is associated 3. Santoor 4. Sitar
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with which musical instrument? 83. Violin virtuoso L Subramaniam is famous for which
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1. Harmonium 2. Tabla of the following genres of music globally?

3. Sarod 4. Violin 1. Jazz 2. Hindustani music
72. In which year was the famous sitar player Pt. Ravi 3. Carnatic music 4. Rock
84. The first Indian musician to receive the Ramon
Shankar awarded the Bharat Ratna?
Magsaysay award for public service is:
1. 1998 2. 1999
1. MS Subbulakshmi 2. Zakir Hussain
3. 1996 4. 1995
3. Bhimsen Joshi 4. Bismillah Khan
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