The band Dongbula (pinyin: yuè duì dōng bù lā) is a Kazakh plucked stringed musical instrument. Named for the band playing. This is the Dongbula series of musical instruments reformed and made on the basis of Akendumbula, which has been used in the Kazakh National Band of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture Art Troupe in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Since 1955, the musicians of the musical instrument production room of the Xinjiang Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture Cultural and Art Troupe have carried out fruitful reforms on Akendumbra. They have learned from the experience of domestic and foreign piano making, and proceeded from the actual needs of stage performances. After seven years , and finally made a series of Dombra instruments - Band Dombra.

The reformed band Dombra, can be used for ensemble or accompaniment, and some can also be used for solo. They are extremely expressive. Using different performance techniques, they can vividly play the gurgling springs on the grassland, the crisp birdsong, the jubilant sheep, the whimpering camel roar and the galloping hooves of horses, and they can perfectly to express the happy labor and love of the happy life of the Kazakh people

The more famous pieces of the band Dombura include "Climax", "Yellow River", "Love the Motherland", "Ode to Yan'an", "Early Spring", "Advance Victory", "Four Travelers", "Prairie Pastoral" and "Waves of the Ili River" and the concerto "Beautiful Balruq Mountain", etc.