Most of the singers were accompanied on stage by musicians, who played harmonium and tabla. The revised festival manual says it would be desirable to have accompanying musicians for Ghazal.

One man is playing the harmonium, another is on the tabla, and in the background, a third man is seen running his fingers on the keyboard. “Mission Impossible theme ko aise suna?” ...

Did you know that from 1940 to 1972 the harmonium was banned by All India ... the digital tanpura and the digital tabla, even as it entered defence systems once the field was opened up to the ...

In Bengal, Montu Banerjee (1915-1980) was highly regarded as a harmonium soloist. Having learnt tabla from several gurus, Banerjee later studied the harmonium under Muneshwar Dayal of Gaya.