tumbi
Sign in to savethumb|Toomba and algoza. The tumbi or toombi (, pronunciation: tūmbī), also called a tumba or toomba, is a traditional musical instrument from the Punjab region of the northern Indian subcontinent. The high-pitched, single-string plucking instrument is associated with folk music of Punjab and presently very popular in Western Bhangra music.
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- Kuldeep Manak, Bhangra
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thumb|Toomba and algoza. The tumbi or toombi (, pronunciation: tūmbī), also called a tumba or toomba, is a traditional musical instrument from the Punjab region of the northern Indian subcontinent. The high-pitched, single-string plucking instrument is associated with folk music of Punjab and presently very popular in Western Bhangra music.
The tumbi was popularized in the modern era by the Punjabi folksinger Lal Chand Yamla Jatt (1914-1991). In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s many Punjabi singers adopted the tumbi, notably Kuldeep Manak, Mohammed Sadiq, Didar Sandhu and Amar Singh Chamkila. Other users include Punjabi Sufi singers such as Saeen Zahoor.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tumbi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.