III. THE TORBAN

(Part II)

 

Last update: September 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 FORUM :: DISCUSSIONS

CONTACT :: QUESTIONS

 

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 Sasha 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" torban in Vienna:


Recently my friend Greet Schamp spotted 2 Torbans of 4 at the Glinka Museum of Musical Instruments in Moscow.

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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:

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Another Mazepa torban, believed to be in the Historical Museum, in Moscow:

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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):

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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):

 


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