KARRELL
FOX COLUMN
"MUSICAL
MONEY BIT" BIT If you do the bill-in-the wallet,
or any trick for that matter where you borrow
a dollar bill, then you will like this little
laugh bit. It's a musical instrument store.
They sell small cylindrical "pitch- pipes".
They are about the diameter of a cigarette,
and only about one and a half to two inches
long. They sell them for all of the notes of
the scale, but you want one tuned to "C". You're
probably way ahead of me by now, but I'll finish
anyway. The little pitch-pipe is concealed in
your right hand. You accept the borrowed bill
with your left hand, and holding the bill between
both hands, you gaze at it closely, remarking
"Hmmm, this looks like a "C" note". Fold the
bill in half, allowing the little pipe to go
INSIDE the fold. Then raise it to your lips
and blow on the pipe, creating the musical sound.
"Ah, it even SOUNDS LIKE A "C" NOTE. But actually
it's just a one dollar bill." As you say this,
you allow the little pipe to slip back into
your right fingers and continue as usual with
your regular bill trick routine. Writing this
gag up has resulted in reminding me of a "funny-
money" collection that I once ran in my magic
column of "TOPS" magazine. So I'm going downstairs
to the basement and dig out all of my old copies
of "TOPS" and see if I can find the bill series
for the inclusion in this book. If I find'em,
they will be next. If not, then I'll write up
a favorite routine of mine with two objects
that you borrow from any audience. A CANTALOUPE
AND A LAWN MOWER. PEEK-A-BRAIN I've included
this effect at this spot in the book because
it is an excellent follow up to "FOLDUP-CHANCE".
What could be better magic than to do a "gag"
prediction such as the one you just read and
to get the laughs AND THEN to repeat the trick
(or at least a similar trick) and to have it
be 100% correct! Intrigued? O.K., read on. EFFECT:
This time, you get a gentleman up to help. You
give him a deck of cards, in its case, with
the request that he place the deck inside his
coat pocket, as you patter, "Before the show
started, I took a deck of cards and shuffled
them. I then 'peeked' at one card. I removed
that card, reversed it in the deck, and returned
the deck to its case. I just gave you that deck,
and you have it in your inside pocket. Now,
I would like you to do the same thing with this
deck that I did with mine. We'll shuffle it,
you 'peek' at a card. Take the deck, remove
the one card you 'peeked' at, turn it face up
and push it back into the deck. May I have my
deck back now? Let's see what card I reversed.
IT'S THE TEN OF HEARTS! Now would you fan out
your deck and show our audience the card that
you 'peeked' at and reversed? Ah, IT TOO IS
THE TEN OF HEARTS, truly a MIRACLE! Thankyou".
Strong effect isn't it? Now for the explanation
in case you need it. The deck you give the spectator
at the beginning is the well- known, Joe Berg's
"Ultra-mental" deck. It's also sold by dealers
as the "invisible deck", however, it's still
the same deck, just a new name. With this deck,
you can show any card reversed. The second deck
is ordinary. You shuffle it and let the spectator
'peek' at any card. Using the standard 'peek'
move, you now know what card he's selected (if
you can't do a simple 'peek' move, then I suggest
that you sell your car, your house or one of
your children and acquire enough cash to buy
ALL of ED MARLO'S books). You hand him the ordinary
deck and ask him to remove and reverse his card
(turn your back), then ask for your deck, fan
it out showing the reversed card which, of course,
matches the one he reversed and will show. The
nice subtle part is that you show your reversed
card before he shows his, and he's left with
the ordinary deck in his hands.
WORDS OF WISDOM:
Read your VERNON card books
for DAI'S AND DAI'S.
Keep practicing with "strippers',
and maybe someday you'll work with one.
Practice is perfection dressed
in work clothes.
Most hecklers are like buttons,
always popping off at the wrong time.
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