TORBAN > THE SURVIVING INSTRUMENTS

III. THE TORBAN

(Part II)

by Roman Turovsky

Last update: September 11, 2012

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

The Torban in the Brussels Museum of Musical Instruments

(heartfelt thanks to Andreas Schlegel)

The Torban in the Muzeum Narodowe in Krakow

The Torbans in in the St. Petersburg Museum of Musical Instruments

(heartfelt thanks to Alexander Batov, and Vladimir Koshelev, who undertook this enormous project)

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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 Alexander Batov):

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The Torban in the Deutsches Museum in München (courtesy of Konstantin Lavrentiev):

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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TheTorban in Cracow Museum:

The Razumovsky family torban in Vienna (thanks to Gregor Razumovsky!):

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The Brno museum torban (Thanks to Jan Cizmar):

2 Torbans at the Glinka Museum of Musical Instruments in Moscow (courtesy of Greet Schamp).

These were made by Krasnoshchekov in Moscow, and owned by Vasyl Shevchenko:

The Torbans at the Kiev Lysenko Museum and the Ivan Honchar Museum of Musical Instruments (courtesy Victor Mishalow and Volodymyr Voyt).

This Torban in the Mykola Lysenko Museum, Kiev:

The so-called Mazepa torban once in the collection of the Tarnavsky Museum in Chernyhiv, destroyed during WWII:

A torban in the Markneukirchen Museum:

This Torban in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg:

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):

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The Torban in the Furniture Museum in L'viv (courtesy of Volodymyr Vojt):

The Torban in the Pereyaslav Museum (courtesy of Victor Mishalow):

The Torban in the Gdansk Museum (courtesy of Piotr Kowalcze and Taras Shumeyko):

The Torban in the Krakow Museum:

The Torban in the Krakow Museum:

The Torban in the Warsaw Museum:

The 2 Torbans at the Dnipropetrovs'k Museum:

A torban at the Kiev Lavra Museum of Folk Decorative Arts:

A torban at the Uman Historical Museum (has been converted into a bandura):

A torban at the Leipzig Museum of Musical Instruments (lost):

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