Over the years and especially during the early 20th century, great maestros of mridangam also arose, inevitably defining "schools" of mridangam with distinct playing styles. Examples include the Puddukottai school and the Thanjavur school. The virtuosos Palani Subramaniam Pillai, Palghat Mani Iyer, C.S. Murugabhupathy and Late Sri Mahadevu Radha Krishna Raju contributed so much to the art that they are often referred to as the Mridangam Trinity.
There is also another style i.e., the blending of Saakotai Rangu Iyengar's and Kumbakonam Azhaganambi Pillai's taught to hundreds of disciples by the legendary Late Sri Kumbakonam Narayanaswamy Iyer and late Sri Kumbakonam Rajappa Iyer.
Past players
- Palghat Mani Iyer
- Palani Subramaniam Pillai
- T. K. Murthy
- Palghat R. Raghu
- Mavelikkara Velukkutty Nair
- Vellore G. Ramabhadran
- T. V. Gopalakrishnan
- Mavelikkara Krishnankutty Nair
- Madurai.T.Srinivasan(Seenakutti)
- Ramanathapuram C S Murugabhoopathy
- Pudukkottai Dakshinamurthy Pillai
Current players
- Karaikudi Mani
- Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
- Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam
- Trichy Sankaran
- Guruvayur Dorai
- Mannargudi Easwaran
- Srimushnam V. Raja Rao
- Trivandrum V. Surendran
- Trichur C. Narendran
- Mannarkoil J Balaji
- Anoor Anantha Krishna Sharma
- A. V. Anand
- H. S. Sudhindra
- Erickavu N. Sunil
- Madurai T. Srinivasan
- Patri Satish Kumar
- Arjun Kumar
- Namilakonda Venu Gopal
- T. S. Chandrashekar
- Renuka Prasad
- B. C. Manjunath
- B. R. Srinivas
- Bangalore R. Ramanath
- Ranjani Venkatesh
- N. Vasudev
- S. V. Balakrishna
- B. S. Prashanth
- T. R. Sundaresan
- Neyveli R. Narayan
- B. Ganapathiraman
- B. Sivaraman
- Arjun Ganesh
- Delhi Sairam
- Guru Raghavendra
- L. Subramanyam
- Akshay Anand
- Sudhir Khollam
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