Punjabi Traditional Indigenous Musical Instrument The tumbi is a small, lightweight folk instrument with just one string. The high-pitched, single-string plucking instrument is associated with the folk music of Punjab and is presently very popular in Western Bhangra music. It is sometimes called 'ektara' meaning 'one-stringed'. Wooden Ektara (Tumbi) Finely Crafted For Each and Every Eternal Music Lover. Package contents: one professional tumbi, colour of tumbi may be diffrent from the displayed image. or color will be random Material: Wooden. Popular in rural and spiritual music, often used in India's spiritual music genres.