NewNewbie Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Thanks for all the great posts! ......and Happy birthday to choo-choo plane too! Almost forgot these too as well! Famous people born in March 01-Mar1810 Frederic Chopin 1904 Glenn Miller 1910 David Niven 1927 Harry Belafonte 1940 David Broome 1944 Roger Daltrey 1952 Mike Read 1955 Cdre Timothy Laurence 1980 Lady Rose Windsor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauricio Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Feliz Aniversário Manfio! Wishing you many more great violas and whatever else you decide to make. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim McTigue Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Happy birthday, Luis! You are truly one of the bright lights of the forum. Thanks for all your great posts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.B.Fiddler Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Happy Birthday, MANFIO! You are absolutely one of the most prolific posters on this or any other board. Thank you for your contributions!!! CB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stern Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Feliz cumpleanos, Luigi!! Nice to see you again and help two more Manfio instruments immigrate!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcos Schmitz Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Feliz Aniversário! Success!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANFIO Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Hi! Thank you all! Grazie, gracias, obrigado! I'm 45 years old now.... Dio!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacob Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 45? You're a spring chicken. Have a good day. How's the weather for a Brazilian barbeque? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b sharp Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Congrats - enjoy the day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Fowler Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Happy Birthday too Luis – hope it wasgood for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Holmes Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Happy Birthday Luis! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Shillitoe Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Many happy returns Manfio! Ed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edi malinaric Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 May you and your family have a happy day of laughter best wishes - edi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Rice Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Happy Birthday Luis, and many thanks for your contributions, especially your latest photo essay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jward Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Feliz cumpleanos a usted, Luis. Tenga muchos anos en la futura y gracias por toda la ayuda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnybear Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 indeed, Happy Birthday perhaps a special dinner is in order... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANFIO Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 Hi! Thank you all! It seems I'm rather popular here in the forum!!! I'm happy you liked the neck and scroll carving thread, I received many many private messages and e.mails about it. Do you have any suggestions for the next tutorial? In general I make shrimp raviole in my birthday, but I was rather tired to cook today (mainly after the Kendo training...), so we lunched in a Japanese restaurant (I go there every week for decades, the sushi man is my friend), but unfortunately they had no sashimi toro today... Anyway it was quite quite good, as usual, and my children loved it!. Some friends appeared in the afternoon and we had some good wine from Chile with prosciuto crudo and parmiggiano cheese, and some other apetizers... and a marzappane cake with apricot cream, quite good, but I don't want to face the scale tomorrow.... Gisela gave me a collection with 70 CDs by Maria Callas, with many many operas and recitals, it will take some time to listen to all these CDs, I started with Puccini's Manon Lescot, I really love Puccini and Callas with those old singers and the orchestra and choir of the Teatro alla Scalla di Milano, they are really gorgeous. My preference is towards chamber music but I started listening to opera about 10 years ago too, I love La Bohème with Callas. Thank you all, ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim McTigue Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 quote: Originally posted by: MANFIO I'm happy you liked the neck and scroll carving thread, I received many many private messages and e.mails about it. Do you have any suggestions for the next tutorial? Well, since you ask... If you haven't yet posted a pictorial dealing with the corpus, I'd love to see one with you carving a back, or belly, or maybe carving the neck mortise and fitting the neck to the corpus. Or perhaps you have a good technique for creating a mould. Any of these would be excellent topics, at least from my point of view... BTW, it sounds like you've had an excellent birthday - I can wish for one like it. Probably won't happen, though. I confess that (in at least most cases I've heard so far) opera is a particular irritant for me - I've been listening to classical CD's while I work on my violin, but I made the mistake of putting on Mozart's "Die Zauberflote" last weekend, and while I tried to tolerate it for a while, I did eventually have to take it off in favour of the CBC Radio... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Rushing Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 HAPPY BIRTHDAY,Manfio my friend. I wish you many, many more, in good health.!!!! A Toast to you--May all your violas turn out to sing, as well as they look--. Thanks again for your instructive contributions to the Forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Pollard Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 Anything you decide to present would be interesting to me, but since you asked -- and Tim beat me to it, so I'm seconding one of his suggestions -- Making a top. "Some friends appeared in the afternoon and we had some good wine from Chile with prosciuto crudo and parmiggiano cheese, and some other apetizers... and a marzappane cake with apricot cream, quite good" Some of your posts just make me hungry.... Cheers, Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryD Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 Happy Birthday Luis!! Many more I hope. Barry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNewbie Posted March 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 Any subject matter that you choose will be great! I've really enjoyed your posts! Just think what things would be like if they had cameras back in Antonio's day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarylG Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 Happy Birthday Luis! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintjohnbarleycorn Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 best regards and thanks for the posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnus Nedregard Posted March 2, 2008 Report Share Posted March 2, 2008 Yep, happy birthday & buon compleanno, and a toast! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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