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Mani, who dominated the Carnatic music world for more than half a century as a mridangam player, died in Chennai on Thursday..
A bachelor, Mani had trained scores of students, played for yesteryear doyens of Carnatic music including M.S. Subbulakshmi, D.K. Pattammal, M.L. Vasanthakumari, Madurai Somu, T.M..
Thiagarajan, D.K. Jayaraman andLalgudi Jayaraman, as well as present-day stars including Sanjay Subramanian and T.M..
Mani first learnt music from Karaikudi Ranga Iyenagr and subsequently from Harihara Sharma, the father of Vikku Vinayagaram, and he and Mani went on to collaborate with many Western percussionists..
