SNAP 2015 GK Preparation
SNAP 2015 GK Preparation series. GK is a differentiator when it comes to SNAP. Most of the aspirants don’t prepare for the section and end up scoring below expectations. Though one cannot prepare for GK in a month, one can always do things that are enough to do reasonably well in the test. One can prepare topic wise, go through past papers and find the commonly asked GK topics and even take calculated guesses in the test. To help you prepare for SNAP 2015 GK section, we are going to write a series of articles focusing on GK. Every article will also be available in PDF format for download and easy viewing. Let’s dive into our #16 article in this series: Musical instruments and Players
In this article, we will look at prominent Musical instruments and Indian players of these instruments.
| Instruments | Players |
| Flute | Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia |
| Pandit Raghunath Seth | |
| Pannalal Ghosh | |
| Sikkil Sisters – Kunjumani & Neela | |
| Rajendra Prasanna | |
| Guitar | Vishwa Mohan Bhatt |
| Brij Bhushan Kabra | |
| Harmonium | Jnan Prakash Ghosh |
| Purshottam Walawalkar | |
| Appa Jalgaonkar | |
| Mandolin | Uppalapu Srinivas |
| Mohan Veena | Vishwa Mohan Bhatt |
| Nadaswaram | Sheik Chinna Moulana |
| T.N. Rajarathnam Pillai | |
| Rudra Veena | Asad Ali Khan |
| Sadiq Ali Khan | |
| Zia Mohiuddin Dagar | |
| Santoor | Pandit Shivkumar Sharma |
| Tarun Bhattacharya | |
| Bhajan Sopori | |
| Sarangi | Ustad Bundu Khan |
| Pandit Ram Narayan | |
| Sarod | Pandit Biswajit Roy Chowdhury |
| Sharan Rani | |
| Pandit Mukesh Sharma | |
| Amjad Ali Khan | |
| Ali Akbar Khan | |
| Ustad Alauddin Khan | |
| Haafiz Ali Khan | |
| Shehnai | Ustad Bismillah Khan |
| Pandit Daya Shankar | |
| Sitar | Pandit Ravi Shankar |
| Ustad Vilayat Khan | |
| Nikhil Ranjan Banerjee | |
| Anoushka Shankar | |
| Budhaditya Mukherjee | |
| Shujaat Husain Khan | |
| Pandit Debu Chaudhuri | |
| Pandit Uma Shankar Mishra | |
| Surbahar | Ustad Imrat Khan |
| Annapurna Devi | |
| Tabla | Shafaat Ahmed Khan |
| Swapan Chaudhuri | |
| Zakir Hussain | |
| Ustad Qureshi Alla Rakha Khan | |
| Ustad Latif Khan | |
| Pandit Gudai Maharaj (Pandit Samta Prasad) | |
| Pandit Kishan Maharaj | |
| Veena | Sundaram Balachander |
| M.A. Kalyanakrisha Bhagavathar | |
| Violin | N. Rajam |
| Vishnu Govind Jog | |
| Dr. Lakshminarayana Subramaniam | |
| Dr. Sangeeta Shankar | |
| Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan | |
| Lalgudi Gopala Iyer Jayaraman |
Download PDF of this article here: SNAP 2015 GK Preparation – Musical instruments and Players
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Read the entire series here: SNAP 2015 GK Preparation
