MANFIO VIOLAS

[MANFIO]

After making just violas for 8 years, I just finished a violin inspired in Guarneri del Gesù.

[Jeffrey Holmes]

Saved from Dec. 2012.

[Christopher Jacoby]

:)

[Melvin Goldsmith]

Great to see!

[Melvin Goldsmith]

Great to see!

Bravo Manfio

[Jim Bress]

Wonderful to see again.

[joerobson]

Manfio,

Looks great.  Welcome back.

Joe

[MANFIO]

Thanks! Here the rest of the photos:

 

[MANFIO]

[MANFIO]

And here this violin is played by the concertmaster  of our State Orchestra, Emmanuele Baldini, (from Trieste, Italy) here at home, in a recital for my 50th birthday some months ago, with pianist Dana Radu. (Romenia), a Mozart Sonata:

 

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And the two last movements of Cesar Frank's sonata:

[jezzupe]

So glad to see you back. It looks great and sounds great too.

[tango]

So glad to see you back. It looks great and sounds great too.

I am complete agree. Congratulations Luis.

Regards

Tango

[Rue]

Beautiful.

 

I must say, you take the best violin/viola photos ever.  I always look forward to and enjoy seeing the new ones.

[MANFIO]

Thanks! Rue, I use a SONY NEX3 camera with two desk lamps. It is simple. 

[Christopher Jacoby]

Sounds great!

[La Folia]

Very nice varnish!

[MANFIO]

Thanks!

 

Just finished a new 40.8 cm. viola, "Barcarolle", I don't know how to post the photo with the URL here, something has changed

or here or in IPERNITY.

 

http://www.ipernity.com/doc/91953/16790253/sizes/1600

 

 

[Violadamore]

Welcome back.  The violin is wonderfully awesome, too  

 

Hoping to hear more about the scrumptious varnish.

[WalterOB]

You always seem to have very similar (interesting) cuts of maple. Do you work from a stockpile or are you just able to source it?

[Julian Cossmann Cooke]

Great to have you back, Luis!

[Addie]

I love sexy varnish pictures!     Superb!

[MANFIO]

Thanks! I work from stockpile and I am always buying wood.

[Michael_Molnar]

Great photos. Lovely varnish!

Mike

[MANFIO]

Thanks Michael!

[MANFIO]

Well, it took me sometime to realize that I could not find the URL in my IPERNITY  photo page because they want me to pay for that now.... 

 

Well, eventually I discovered that we can import photos from FACEBOOK to PHOTOBUCKET, quite easily, so here the photos of the 40.8 cm. (16 inche) viola "Barcarolle":

 

http://s268.photobucket.com/user/manfio/library/Facebook/VIOLA%20Barcarolle%20408%20cm%2016%20inche?sort=3&page=1

 

And here a baroque viola "La Folia":

 

http://s268.photobucket.com/user/manfio/library/Facebook/BAROQUE%20VIOLA%20LA%20FOLIA%20408%20cm%2016?sort=3&page=1

 

The player who comissioned the baroque viola came from South Africa to pick it and, eventually, got the modern viola "Barcarolle" too and now

both instruments are in South Africa. I have instruments in 4 Continents now!