Lepcha Musical instruments (Part 1)
Tumbok / Tumbak
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This instrument is made of a carved single piece of wood, approximately 2 feet in length. Goat leather is stretched over a hollowed out sound box and three holes are bored into the leather. A bridge sits on the leather surface. There are three strings attached to three tuning pegs and stretched across the bridge. The ᴛᴜᴍʙᴏᴋ, such as the one played here by Ten Tshering, a resident of Tingvong village in Upper Dzongu region of North Sikkim, can also have four strings and four corresponding tuning pegs. The strings are currently made of nylon, but he mentioned that they were traditionally made from numerous materials, including nettle fiber. It is plucked by a bamboo plectrum, but Ten Tshering sometimes uses a guitar plectrum also, because he prefers the sound it produces.

(Writeup as described by Ten Tshering. Translated to English)

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