Made a trip recently to the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis and saw a painting by Serafim Aleksandrovich Pavlovski with a lute-like object in it (didn't look like the torbans on Roman's web site, but I s'pose it very well could be).
Here's a picture of it: http://www.tmora.org/collection/Russian_art.asp?RECORD_INDEX=17&; It's really hard to tell what it is given that it is only the lower 2/3rds of the instrument, but it is still interestnayah, all the same. Greg-- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
