Lesson 47-48 Thimbles - Needles and Razor Blades
Manipulation is the pinnacle of magic. There's probably no beginner who hasn't tried special tricks for balls, playing cards, coins, or cigarettes. And there's certainly no professional magician who hasn't included a manipulation routine in one of their routines. Any object that fits comfortably in one hand and can also be concealed there can be manipulated, especially everyday objects like thimbles.
Harlan Tarbell uses a routine involving 16 thimbles to explain all the essential moves and offers numerous tips on how to make such a performance astonishing and entertaining. This is followed by "The Miser's Dream - with Thimbles" and a few additional vanishing techniques.
For readers of the German-language edition, there's a 20-page excursus explaining that eight years after Harlan Tarbell's death, Werry introduced special thimbles that revolutionized thimble work. All the important Werry thimble grips are explained. The routines in which they are used will leave your audience rubbing their eyes in disbelief.
In keeping with thimbles, Lesson 48 then moves on to needles, but instead of manipulating them, they are swallowed by the performer for the sensational trick 'The Needle Mystery'. The same thing happens with razor blades, which, like needles, emerge from the magician's mouth strung on a thread.
76 pages
CONTENTS
Lesson 47 Manipulation with Thimbles
A routine with 16 thimbles
Basic grips with thimbles
1. The thumb palmage of a thimble
2. The front and backhand palmage of a thimble
3. The production of a thimble
4. The alternating palmage
The Thimble Routine
5. Slow disappearance of thimble in the hand
6. Hiding the middle finger
7. Production of the thimble from the empty left hand
8. The peel-off thimble disappearance
9. Production from the thumb palmage
10. Disposable disappearance
11. Quick color change
12 Conversion back to the original color
13. The Thumbs-Down Disappearance
14 transfer color changes
15 The Disappearance of the Head
16 The Mouth Disappearance
17 The thimble jump from hand to hand
18 Jumping over during a side swing
Back to the thimble performance
Trouser leg production
Hat production
Summary of the thimble performance
A miser's dream - with thimbles
Other interesting methods for foxglove disappearance
The disappearance of the thumbtip
The Phantom Foxglove Disappearance
Another phantom foxglove disappearance
Disappear in a small paper bag
Translator's Notes
Excursus for readers of the German edition
Werry's Fantastic Thimbles
The basic grips
The lifting handle
A complete disappearance
A simple routine
Werry's Thimble Cloth Penetration
Ken de Courcy's Push-Thru...Pull-Thru
Werry's foxglove coloring
Werry's blow after blow
Uncle Henry's Thimble Trick by Ken de Courcy
Lesson 48 Needle Swallowing and Razor Blades
Preliminary remarks by the translator and editor
The Needle Mystery
The razor blade mystery
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