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Percussion instrument
The mridangam is an ancient percussion instrument originating from the Indian subcontinent. It is a traditional royal instrument originating in the south
Mridangam
Highest civilian award in the state of Tamil Nadu, India
recipients of the Kalaimamani for the year 1971–72. Music Madras A. Kannan (mridangam) G. N. Dhandapani Iyer (veena) Actor J. Jayalalithaa Music P. K. Subbaiyar
Kalaimamani
2019 Tamil-language musical drama film
about when the lives of a famous mridangam player named Vembu Iyer and his student Peter Johnson, son of an expert mridangam maker named Johnson and a crazy
Sarvam_Thaala_Mayam
Indian actor (1944–2024)
Bhairavi (1985), he played the role as Gurumoorthy, a mridangam player. His performance as a mridangam player gained spotlight and his acting skills showing
Delhi_Ganesh
Musician
music. Born in Ambalapuzha, Kerala, India, Nandakumar had his training in mridangam under Kaithavana Madhavadas in the gurukula system. He is associated with
T._S._Nandakumar
Indian musician (born 1956)
Thiruvaarur Bakthavathsalam (born 25 November 1956) is an Indian mridangam Vidwan. In 2021, he was awarded the Sangeetha Kalanidhi award by the Madras
Thiruvarur_Bakthavathsalam
Indian percussionist (born 1958)
(born 4 May 1958) is an Indian percussionist from Kerala, who plays the Mridangam and performs Carnatic music. He is known for being a versatile percussionist
K._V._Prasad
Award given by the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award
– Palghat K. V. Narayanaswamy 1971 – Mavelikkara Krishnankutty Nair (Mridangam) 1972 – C. S. Krishna Iyer 1972 – Parur Sundaram Iyer (Violin) 1972 –
Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award
Kerala_Sangeetha_Nataka_Akademi_Award
Indian musician
Akshay Anantapadmanabhan is an carnatic mridangam artist, composer and multi-percussionist. In unique demonstrations of South Indian percussion, he has
Akshay_Anantapadmanabhan
Day of the year
singer-songwriter and actor (died 1987) 1929 – Vellore G. Ramabhadran, Mridangam artiste from Tamil Nadu, India (died 2012) 1930 – Ali al-Sistani, Iranian-Iraqi
August_4
Award
Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar is an annual Indian award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi to outstanding artists under 40 who have demonstrated talent
Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar
Ustad_Bismillah_Khan_Yuva_Puraskar
Indian musical artist (born 1959)
Palghat Raghu (mridangam), Karaikudi Mani (mridangam), Palanivel (tavil), Hari Shankar (khanjira), and Sridhar Parthasarathy (mridangam, hand percussion)
Ranjit_Barot
Indian terracotta two-sided drum
mridanga (< Sanskrit mṛd + aṅga, lit. 'clay limb'), not to be confused with mridangam. It originates from the Indian states of Odisha, West Bengal, Assam and
Khol
Musical artist
Patri Satish Kumar is an Indian Carnatic musician, specializing the Mridangam, an Indian percussion instrument. In 2020, he received the Sangeet Natak
Patri_Satish_Kumar
Musical artist
Abhishek was born into a family of notable musicians. He is the grandson of mridangam maestro Palghat R. Raghu. His mother Usha is the niece of violin maestro
Abhishek_Raghuram
Indian Mridangam player
radio broadcaster, in the discipline of Mridangam. Currently, he serves as an Assistant Professor (UGC) in Mridangam at the Kerala Kalamandalam. Sunil is
Erickavu_N._Sunil
South Indian Carnatic musical art
performance, and vastly outnumber any commonly used finger placements on mridangam or any other hand percussion instrument. Further, all the differences
Konnakol
Indian classical musician and percussionist
veena, apart from mridangam but, later, concentrated more on mridangam and trained under his uncle, Yella Somanna, a known mridangam guru, who later adopted
Yella_Venkateswara_Rao
Indian musician and percussionist (born 1968)
Indian Carnatic musician, percussionist, and composer, specializing in the mridangam. K. Arun Prakash was born in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India, to Vasantha
K._Arun_Prakash
Indian actor (born 1969)
Production. Ganesh, Deepa (2 March 2017). "Akshay Anand's love for the mridangam is obvious in his playing". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 17 May
Akshay_Anand
First Indian female percussionist who broke the gender barrier
Ranganayaki Ammal (28 May 1910 – 15 August 1998) was an Indian Mridangam player. She was the first to break the gender barrier and became the first Indian
Ranganayaki_Ammal
Swedish jazz musician (1942–2026)
the 1960s with Pandit Taranath Rama Rao and Mridangam Vidwan P.S. Devarajan and played the tabla and mridangam. He died on 15 May 2026, at the age of 83
Bengt_Berger
Indian Carnatic classical musician duo
Jayendra Saraswathi Maha Swamigal of Kanchi Mutt. Their father is veteran Mridangam Vidwan Shri Trichur R Mohan. Their music journey started quite early,
Trichur_Brothers
South Asian percussion tuning paste
South Asian percussion instruments like the dholki, jori, tabla, madal, mridangam, khol and pakhavaj. Syahi is usually black in colour, circular in shape
Syahi
Indian Mridangam exponent (1920–2019)
Madras A. Kannan was a Mridangam exponent from Tamil Nadu, India. Due to his outstanding performances in the field of percussion, he is often called as
Madras_A._Kannan
Type of musical instrument that produces a sound by being hit
Examples of membranophones: Bass drum Bongos Conga Darbuka Djembe Kuzeh Mridangam Octoban Parai Rototom Snare drum Tabla Thavil Timpani Tom-tom Lion's roar
Percussion_instrument
Indian violinist, singer and composer (born 1950)
Jaffna. Apart from singing and playing the violin, he pursued professional mridangam playing until the age of 12. He said "my father really insisted that besides
L._Shankar
Type of musical instrument of the percussion family
Ilimba drum Karyenda Kanjira Kendang Kpanlogo Lambeg drum Log drum Madal Mridangam Pahu Pakhavaj Parai Repinique Riddle drum Side drum (marching snare drum)
Drum
Indian musician (born 1935)
Indian musician and exponent of the Carnatic percussion instrument, the mridangam. He is a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan as well as the Sangeet Natak
Umayalpuram_K._Sivaraman
School in Gopala Puram, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
School also houses extracurricular activities like Flute, Vocal Music, Mridangam, Classical dance, carpentry and so on. Apart from extracurricular activities
GD Matriculation Higher Secondary School
GD_Matriculation_Higher_Secondary_School
This is a list of Carnatic instrumentalists: musicians famous for playing the carnatic music of South India. Musicians are listed by the instrument they
List of Carnatic instrumentalists
List_of_Carnatic_instrumentalists
Indian Mridangam exponent
J. Vaidhyanathan affectionately known as JV is a Mridangam exponent from Tamil Nadu, India. He was the first mridangist to receive the Yuva Kala Bharathi
J._Vaidhyanathan
1983 film by K. Shankar
Miruthanga Chakravarthi (transl. The Mridangam Maestro) is a 1983 Indian Tamil-language musical drama film directed by K. Shankar and produced by Sakunthala
Miruthanga_Chakravarthi
Instrument played with the help of mouth and hand
played along with the mridangam or dhol, so it is necessary to know the syllables or aural interpretation of what is played on mridangam. It is important to
Morsing
Sri Lankan traditional drum
the geta beraya, is a barrel drum from Sri Lanka. It is related to the mridangam, the pakhavaj, and the kendang.[how?] The geta bera is used primarily
Geta_bera
harmonica Hammered dulcimer Handbells Hang Lithophone Marimba Metallophone Mridangam Glockenspiel The harp stop and other effects on the organ Quadrangularis
List of percussion instruments by type
List_of_percussion_instruments_by_type
French dancer
orchestra drums as well as Indian drums like Tabla and Mridangam. He trained under Mridangam Maestro Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam, who gave his sister
Paris_Laxmi
Indian percussionist (born 1976)
Manjunath (known as B C Manjunath) (born in 1976 in Karnataka) is an Indian Mridangam player, active in Indian classical music as well as Jazz and World music
B._C._Manjunath
Recite-and-dance art-form of Kerala, India
laced with humour intended at criticism of society, is accompanied by a mridangam (a barrel-shaped double-headed drum) and/or the handy idakka besides a
Ottan_Thullal
Musical artist
Kumbakonam M. Rajappa Iyer was a Mridangam Vidwan in the field of Carnatic music from India. He was born in 1916 at Kumbakonam to Muthuswamy Iyer and
Kumbakonam_M._Rajappa_Iyer
Musical artist
age of 10 at a harikatha discourses by Sivaramakrishna Bhagavathar. The mridangam player who was supposed to play had failed to turn up and Mani Iyer substituted
Palghat_Mani_Iyer
Indian Carnatic and Hindustani musician (born 1932)
child of his parents, who totally had nine siblings. started playing the mridangam at the age of four and had his arangetram at the Cochin palace at the
T._V._Gopalakrishnan
Woodwind instrument
Carillon Celesta Cymbals Glockenspiel Gong Handbell Lithophone Marimba Mridangam Snare drum Steelpan Timpani Triangle Tubaphone Tubular bells Vibraphone
Flute
Unpitched percussion instrument
than three variants. The Maddale used in Yakshagana looks similar to the mridangam, but differs significantly in structure, acoustics, playing techniques
Maddale
Indian musician (born 1951)
Thrissur C. Narendran is a Mridangam (मृदंगम्,மிருதங்கம்,മൃദംഗം,:ಮೃದಂಗ,మృదంగం) artiste from Kerala, India. His intricate rhythmic patterns, sense of proportion
Trichur_C._Narendran
1976 live album by Shakti
McLaughlin - Guitar L. Shankar - Violin Ramnad Raghavan - Mridangam T. H. Vinayakram - Ghatam and Mridangam Zakir Hussain - Tabla John McLaughlin - Producer Nathan
Shakti_(Shakti_album)
Indian musician (born 1924)
Murthy (born 13 August 1924), better known as T. K. Murthy, is an Indian Mridangam player. Murthy is a recipient of the Padma Shri and Sangeetha Kalanidhi
T._K._Murthy
Unpitched percussion instrument
orchestra. Except for the central projection, the Maddalam resembles a Mridangam in shape. The name Madhalam is derived from the word Mardhalam which means
Madhalam
Music genre originating in southern India
melodic accompaniment (usually a violin), a rhythm accompaniment (usually a mridangam), and a tambura, which acts as a drone throughout the performance. Other
Carnatic_music
Musical artist
born on 27 September 1927 at Paravur, near Kollam in then Travancore to mridangam player and classical singer Paravur N. Kochu Govindan Asan and Kochukunju
G._Devarajan
Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan (born 11 May 1963) is an Indian mridangam artist from a family of mridangam artists. He is a recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Tiruvarur_Vaidyanathan
Topics referred to by the same term
Mavelikkara Krishnankutty Nair (1920–1988), Carnatic Mridangam player Mavelikkara Velukkutty Nair, Indian mridangam player Mavelikkara S. R. Raju, Carnatic music
Mavelikkara_(disambiguation)
South Indian guitarist
guitar. He not only played Carnatic music on guitar but was a skilled mridangam artist who accompanied stalwarts including Alathur Srinivasa Iyer, M.
Sukumar_Prasad
Indian mridangam player (1929-2012)
Vellore G. Ramabhadran (4 August 1929 – 27 February 2012) was a Mridangam artiste from Tamil Nadu, India. He was awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha
Vellore_G._Ramabhadran
Musical artist
senior exponents of the South Indian classical percussion instrument, the mridangam. He had his initial training under Palghat Subba Iyer and E.P. Narayana
Guruvayur_Dorai
2002 concert held in memory of George Harrison
Prasanna: shahnai; Tanmoy Bose: tabla; Sunil Gupta: flute; M. Balanchandar: mridangam; Unidentified musicians: other instruments "Arpan" (Ravi Shankar) – 23:01
Concert_for_George
Musical artist
awarded the Madras Music Academy's Sangeetha Kalanidhi in 2011. As a mridangam vidwan, he has been called a "doyen among the percussionists of India"
Trichy_Sankaran
Burmese singer (1928–2009)
music in Rangoon. As a child, he was immensely talented and inducted into mridangam lessons very early in his life. His initial training in percussion was
Palghat_R._Raghu
family name Thanjavurkar. Thiagarajan's father is Mahalingam Pillai, a mridangam maestro and his mother is Seethalakshmi Ammal. Thiagarajan started learning
T._M._Thiagarajan
Indian music composer
singer. A multi-instrumentalist, Abhyankkar learned to play the tabla, mridangam, piano, drums and guitar, and began composing music during early teens
Sai_Abhyankkar
Musical artist
ethnic and from Arabic to Electronic. His instruments include tabla, mridangam, kanjira, ghatam, vocal percussion, dholak, naal, bhangra dhol from north
Pete_Lockett
Indian flautist
professor T. R. Subramanian of Delhi University. He had also undergone basic mridangam training for a brief period from Kumbakonam Rajappa Iyengar. He also has
K._Bhaskaran
Indian Tamil film composer (born 1987)
directors in Tamil cinema. Roldan was born as Raghavendra Raja Rao to the mridangam player Srimushnam V. Raja Rao and Padma, the daughter of novelist Sandilyan
Sean_Roldan
2005 soundtrack album by Harris Jayaraj
featured the lead pair singing amidst a flower farm and was accompanied by mridangam and flute players in the background. It was choreographed by Raju Sundaram
Anniyan_(soundtrack)
Village in Kerala, India
manufacture and tune the leather-based percussion musical instruments such as Mridangam, Maddalam, Tabla, Timila, Chenda, Idakka etc. These families have been
Peruvemba
Indian mridangam player and Carnatic vocalist
Raja Rao (born 1955) is an Indian mridangam player and Carnatic vocalist. He received his initial training in Mridangam from his father S. Venkataramana
Srimushnam_V._Raja_Rao
Indian percussionist
primarily playing the mridangam. She is married to "Mridangam Maestro" Dandamudi Ramamohan Rao. She is one of the first female mridangam players in India,
Nidumolu_Sumathi
Indian actor and playback singer (born 1976)
Mridangamist and made his debut solo performance at the age of 10. His Mridangam Arangetram had M. Balamuralikrishna accompanying him on the viola and
Yugendran
Type of drum
double-headed, hand-struck Indian drums, which have various names: dholak, nal, mridangam. The player strikes the tumdak with full hand and fingers as required
Tumdak'
Indian mridangam exponent (1933–2011)
January 2011), also known as Dandamudi Ramamohana Rao, was an Indian mridangam player. He received the Kala Praveena title from the Andhra Pradesh Sangeet
Dandamudi_Ramamohan_Rao
Period before sunrise that is believed to be auspicious for yoga, meditation and worship
Sindoor Soma Vibhuti Instruments Dholak Harmonium Karatalas Khol Manjira Mridangam Nadaswaram Tabla Veena Iconography Ashtadhatu Lingam Moolavar Panchaloha
Brahmamuhurta
Indian mridangam player (1945–2023)
Ganapathy Subramanyam; 11 September 1945 – 4 May 2023) was an Indian mridangam player. Ganapathi Subramaniam popularly known as Karaikudi Mani was born
Karaikudi_Mani
Indian classical dance
accompanies the performance. The typical musical instruments in Kuchipudi are mridangam, cymbals, veena, flute and the tambura. The popularity of Kuchipudi has
Kuchipudi
Fragrant wood of some Thymelaeoideae
Sindoor Soma Vibhuti Instruments Dholak Harmonium Karatalas Khol Manjira Mridangam Nadaswaram Tabla Veena Iconography Ashtadhatu Lingam Moolavar Panchaloha
Agarwood
2026 soundtrack album by Indraadip Dasgupta
Instrumentation: In the song "Kakababu Title", Dasgupta heavily featured the Veena, Mridangam, and Ghatam to capture the South Indian setting. These were layered against
Vijaynagar'er Hirey (soundtrack)
Vijaynagar'er_Hirey_(soundtrack)
South Indian frame drum
music (South Indian classical music) as a supporting instrument for the mridangam. Similar to the Western tambourine, it consists of a circular frame made
Kanjira
Indian actor (1944–2006)
his childhood, and learned vocal music and percussion instruments like mridangam and tabla. His trainer in vocal music was Kalamandalam Vasudeva Panikker
Oduvil_Unnikrishnan
Series of performances by Chembai (1904–1927)
Bhagavatar played the violin, and Chokkanathapuram Ayya Bhagavatar played the mridangam. During the brothers' early career, they performed a concert at the temple
Concerts_of_Chembai
Brass instrument
Carillon Celesta Cymbals Glockenspiel Gong Handbell Lithophone Marimba Mridangam Snare drum Steelpan Timpani Triangle Tubaphone Tubular bells Vibraphone
Cornet
American singer
Thayir Sadam Project with Ambi, Carnatic fusion artist Mahesh Raghvan and mridangam player Akshay Anantapadmanabhan. Bindu was born in United States and
Bindu_Subramaniam
Kerala musician
percussionist who plays the mridangam. He studied with Mavelikara Krishnankutty Nair. In 1958 he joined All India radio as a mridangam player. In 1999 Kerala
Mavelikkara_S._R._Raju
Instrument
different from other instruments that have similar names (as opposed to the Mridangam, used in South Indian music) in the Indian subcontinent due to its unique
Mrudanga
2001 live album by Remember Shakti
Srinivas on electric mandolin, Vikku Selvaganesh on ghatam, kanjira and mridangam, Zakir Hussain on tabla and a number of guest musicians, including vocalist
Remember Shakti – Saturday Night in Bombay
Remember_Shakti_–_Saturday_Night_in_Bombay
Musical artist
revered as the "Holy Trinity of Mridanga". He was adept in playing the mridangam and kanjira. He was the sishya (disciple) of the celebrated Palani Muthaiah
Palani_Subramaniam_Pillai
Musical artist
content with his fame as a Carnatic vocalist, he also played the kanjira, mridangam, viola, and violin. He accompanied various musicians on the violin. He
M._Balamuralikrishna
Indian theatre and voice actor
learning the mridangam – an ancient Indian percussion instrument – and he trained under Palghat Mani Iyer in Chennai and Tanjavur. He played mridangam for 18
P._C._Ramakrishna
Ritual milk-bathing in Indian religions
Sindoor Soma Vibhuti Instruments Dholak Harmonium Karatalas Khol Manjira Mridangam Nadaswaram Tabla Veena Iconography Ashtadhatu Lingam Moolavar Panchaloha
Abhisheka
1976 documentary by Satyajit Ray
(Flute) V. Tyagarajan (Violin) T. Kuppuswamy (Mridangam) T. Janardan (Tambura) T. Ranganathan (Mridangam) After the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Bala_(1976_film)
Hindu temple in Tamil Nadu, India
Devar named Singhi played Mridangam there. Because Nandi devar sat blindfolded due to his preoccupation with the mridangam, he was unable to experience
Mappedu_Singeeswarar_Temple
1975 Indian Tamil-language film by K. Balachander
revolutionary activities and takes up music for her sake, becoming a mridangam player. Prasanna is happy that Bhairavi has accepted his proposal, but
Apoorva_Raagangal
Musical artist
celebrated Carnatic vocalists. Her maternal grandfather was the legendary mridangam virtuoso, Palghat Mani Iyer. Nithyasree's initial musical training was
Nithyasree_Mahadevan
First stage performance of an Indian classical dance student
Bharatanatyam, and Mohiniattam as well as vocal and instrument recitals like Mridangam, ghatam, and violin.[citation needed] Chandra Bhushan, Manjusha. "Shivam
Arangetram_(dance)
Brass musical instrument
Carillon Celesta Cymbals Glockenspiel Gong Handbell Lithophone Marimba Mridangam Snare drum Steelpan Timpani Triangle Tubaphone Tubular bells Vibraphone
Sousaphone
Indian playback singer (1944–2025)
School, Irinjalakuda, from where he received many prizes for playing the mridangam and light music in the State School Youth Festival. He then studied at
P._Jayachandran
Brass instrument
Carillon Celesta Cymbals Glockenspiel Gong Handbell Lithophone Marimba Mridangam Snare drum Steelpan Timpani Triangle Tubaphone Tubular bells Vibraphone
Trumpet
Indian actor from Kerala
started learning Kathakali, Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi and also to play Mridangam. He won the title of 'Kalaaprathibha' for two consecutive years 1998 and
Shivajith
Species of tree
Sindoor Soma Vibhuti Instruments Dholak Harmonium Karatalas Khol Manjira Mridangam Nadaswaram Tabla Veena Iconography Ashtadhatu Lingam Moolavar Panchaloha
Neolamarckia_cadamba
Tamil Indian composer and playback singer (born 1943)
traditional instruments such as the veena, venu, nadaswaram, dholak, mridangam and tabla as well as Western lead instruments such as saxophones and flutes
Ilaiyaraaja
Musical artist
training at the age of four, under the guidance of his father and well known Mridangam artist Vidwan Ullur Nagendra Udupa. He ventured into the world of Carnatic
Giridhar_Udupa
Species of fig
Sindoor Soma Vibhuti Instruments Dholak Harmonium Karatalas Khol Manjira Mridangam Nadaswaram Tabla Veena Iconography Ashtadhatu Lingam Moolavar Panchaloha
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