Musicians
In his three decade career, R. D. Burman has worked with innumerable musicians, all of whom are impossible to enlist here. The names of musicians that appear below, are the ones R. D. Burman worked with most frequently or for a long stretch of time.
Tabla
Devichand Chauhan, Amrutrao Katkar, Homi Mullah, Chandrakant Satnak, Deepak Naik,
Indranath Mukherjee, Devi Prasad Chakravarty, Vijay Katkar, Nitin Shankar.
Tabla, Dholak
Shashikant, Iqbul Khan
Dholak
Dubey, Roshan
Drummer
Franco Vaz, Buggy Lord, Vancy, Trilok Gurtu, Lesli Vaz
Bongo
Kawas Lord
Hulgi, Dhol, Chanda
Ganpatrao Jadhav
Bangla Dhol
Oboni Dasgupta
Tabla, Tarang & Jal Tarang
Janardan Abhyankar
Ghatam, Matka
Indra Atma
Mridangam
Jairaman
Tumba
Ravi Gurtu
Tabla, Pakhwaj
Bhavani Shankar Singh
Madal
Ranjit Gazmer alias Kancha
Spanish Guitar
Bhanu Gupta, Dass Babu.
Electric Guitar
DilipNaik, Sunil Kaushik,
Hawaiian & Spanish Players Guitar
Bhupinder Singh
Bass Guitar
Charanjeet Singh, Tony Vaz
Spanish & Electric Guitar
Ramesh lyyer
Santoor
Shivkumar Sharma, Ulhas Bapat
Tar Shehnai
Dakhni Tagore
Sarod
Zarine Daruwalla
Sitar
Kartik Kumar, Arvind Mayekar
Violin
Sapre, Gajanan Karnad, Prahhakar Jog, Nanekar , Nandu Chavathe, Uttam Singh
Violin, Swarolin
Rajendra Singh
Sarangi
Sultan Khan, Iqbal
Mandolin
Kishore Desai, Ravi Sunderam, Mustafa,
Banjo & Bulbul Tarang
Rashid Khan
Transicord
Charanjeet Singh
Piano
Louis Banks, Mike Machado, Lusilaa
Synthesiser
Louis Banks, Kersi Lord
Accordion, Organ
Kersi Lord
Electric Organ – Key Board
Ronny
Saxophone
Manohari Singh, Shyam Raj
Flute
Hariprasad Chaurasia, Suman Raj, Ronu Muzumdaar
Trumpet
George, Castro, Joseph, Bosco, Kishore Sodha
Trombone
Blasco, Mans
