tambubuk Variant. tabubuk Variant. tebubuk noun English. Two-stringed bamboo musical instrument which may be either plucked as a guitar or beaten as a drum. The "strings" are bamboo strips looseded and pried away from the body of the bamboo. Example sentence: Subanen. Ki tabubuk, ginis dadema gagung, laak lebuuk ig baalen, dua' buuki kuldasen, laak gunay. English. A two-stringed bamboo guitar is one kind of percussion instrument, made out of bamboo, and it has two strings, still part of it. Generic. agung