III. THE INSTRUMENT
(Part II)
Last update: August 14, 2008
CHAPTER I :: UKRAINE IN THE 18th CENTURY: General outlook
CHAPTER II :: UKRAINIAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: Historical context
CHAPTER III-a :: TORBAN: Its origins and predecessors
CHAPTER III-b :: TORBAN: Illustrated Overview of Surviving Instruments
CHAPTER IV-a :: UKRAINIAN MUSIC: Renaissance Era, Lute
CHAPTER IV-b :: Baroque & Classical Eras, Baroque Lute & Torban
CHAPTER V :: PERSONALITIES: Known players and literary citations
ICONOGRAPHY :: REGIONAL: Lutes in Early Eastern Europe
GUESTBOOK :: COMMENTS
FORUM :: DISCUSSIONS
CONTACT :: QUESTIONS
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The Torban in in the Metropolitan Museum (DETAILS FORTHCOMING, Thanks to Stewart Pollens (pictured) and Joseph Peknik): ![]()
The Torban in the Royal College of Music in London (courtesy Sasha Batov): ![]()
MORE... The Torban in the Deutsches Museum in München (courtesy of Konstantin Lavrentiev): ![]()
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The 2 Torbans in the Musical Instruments Museum in Poznan, Poland. Here are the photos (used with permission, thanks to the Museum and Alicja Knast): ![]()
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MORE... TheTorban in Cracow Museum: ![]()
The "Razumovsky" torban in Vienna: ![]()
Recently my friend Greet Schamp spotted 2 Torbans of 4 at the Glinka Museum of Musical Instruments in Moscow. Here are the photos:
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The Torbans at the Kiev Lysenko Museum and the Ivan Honchar Museum of Musical Instruments (courtesy Victor Mishalow).
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This Torban in the Mykola Lysenko Museum, Kiev:
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The so-called Mazepa torban once in the collection of the Tarnavsky Museum in Chernyhiv, current location unknown:
Another Mazepa torban, believed to be in the Historical Museum, in Moscow:
This Torban in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg:
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The Torban in the collection of Ethnographic Museum in St. Petersburg (formerly in the Privalov Collection):
The Torban in the Historical Museum in L'viv (courtesy of Volodymyr Vojt):
The Torban in the Furniture Museum in L'viv (courtesy of Volodymyr Vojt):
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The Torban in the Pereyaslav Museum (courtesy of Victor Mishalow):