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takeachance Inner circle 3764 Posts |
Docc Hilford brought this out and I can't find a review here on the Café. Basically it's a billet switching device you make up from a card box. Did anyone get this? know anything about it?
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jekyllandhyde Regular user 200 Posts |
Very practical if you use cards in your act. I use it often.
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takeachance Inner circle 3764 Posts |
Thanks jekyllandhyde, It sounds like it would be OK for rigging up a Tarot card box as well
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DamonWizaed New user 60 Posts |
It's a great piece and the read is so easy it hurts. Typically Docc.So is Invisible Stranger which combines Pseudo-psycomotry and Q&A.
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takeachance Inner circle 3764 Posts |
The Invisible Stranger has just come up on the HP site. Sounds like you already have it DamonWizaed, can you give a review
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DamonWizaed New user 60 Posts |
Just received The Invisible Stranger a couple of days ago along with The Rossini Secret from Docc. Both pieces live up to their adverts in Docc's inimtable style. Strangers in the Night really is an "in your pocket" routine which can entertain a room full of women with four slips of paper, some pens and a small glass bowl (which can be borrowed)and you can reveal the first participants friend gender, his/her initials and find the billet without looking. Disclose the second's their gender and give an accurate reading about this friend, knowing their nickname and reveal their initials. Do a detailed description of the third with their initials and finally give a reading for the lover of the fourth with a description of the looks including what he's wearing and revealing his full name. Can't wait to give this a try! Will let you know how it goes.
In addition, he tips a great marketing program that can be used for good money. These 44 pages are a great value. (For me anyhow.) As far as The Rossini Secret is concern - yes, it can be done with Tarot as I will do. There is no "turning away" to get the read - you do it right under their nose! |
DamonWizaed New user 60 Posts |
By the way, even though I've posted only a few times I've been around a long time and worked with Bob Nelson in the mid sixties for about six years and was part of his "brain trust". Been working full time in the mental and hypnosis field since the late fifties.
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takeachance Inner circle 3764 Posts |
Many thanks for shareing with your review. I'll pick these up.
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DamonWizaed New user 60 Posts |
Many thanks. Enjoy!
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Conus Special user 657 Posts |
By all descriptions, "The Rosini Secret" seems to require use of a fairly small piece of paper -- such as that "torn from the corner of a menu."
Is the handling and method explained in the booklet suitable for a folded "formal" billet? Or does the gaff restrict you to use a small torn piece of paper? Does the basic switch and read really differ that much from what you can achieve through Eddie Joseph's "Astral Diviner?" (Which enables you to use a folded billet.) I'd hate to drop $35 to discover it's the basically same. Many thanks! |
John Sergott New user Middletown PA 13 Posts |
I just got back from Denny's and enjoyed Docc's System 88 lecture.
He performed Invisible Stranger, he tipped the method beforehand and still had many of us falling prey to the psychological hooks build into the routine. Easily adaptable for most Q&A work. |
Dick Christian Inner circle Northern Virginia (Metro DC) 2619 Posts |
Here is my review of "The Rosini Secret" which appeared in the November 2008 issue of The Linking Ring.
"Although best known as a consummate close-up magician, Paul Rosini (1902-1948) got his start as the “receiver” in a two-person mental act created by Julius Zancig and his close-up performances often included a brief “reading” using cards randomly selected by the subject of the reading culminating in his revelation of information the subject had written on a billet that was then burned by the subject — without the paper ever being handled by Rosini or ever having left their sight! While Rosini never revealed his method, Docc Hilford may well have uncovered it through detailed research including interviews with several who know Rosini personally and often observed him in action. The ability to surreptitiously obtain the information written on a billet is an important weapon in the mentalist’s arsenal. (If you don’t know what a “billet” is, skip ahead to the next review — this item is not for you.) There is no shortage of methods described in the magical literature and from the description of Rosini’s performance it is apparent that he switched the subject’s billet for a dummy which would be burned, giving him ample opportunity to read the real one while the observers’ attention was directed elsewhere. Witnesses have consistently said that Rosini had the subject place their folded billet atop the box of cards which he extended toward them like a little tray, then dumped the billet into their hand for them to place in an ashtray and set afire. Hilford’s booklet provides detailed and photo illustrated instructions for easily modifying the card box to serve as a holdout for the billet to be switched in and its subsequent use in shielding the subject’s opened billet from observers’ view while being read. As is typical of Hilford’s products, the handling is described in great detail with photo illustrations and valuable tips on timing and presentation are included along with a history of his efforts to reconstruct Rosini’s method. You must be prepared to do a brief reading using cards (either playing cards or Tarot) in order to justify the use of the card box as a tray for the billet, but if you can, and are looking for an easily mastered no-sleight billet switch with ample cover, you’d be hard pressed to find a better choice than “The Rosini Secret.” Highly recommended for the working mentalist."
Dick Christian
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Tony Iacoviello Eternal Order 13151 Posts |
Thank you Dick!
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Conus Special user 657 Posts |
Yes -- thank you, Mr. Christian!
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Zombie Magic Inner circle I went out for a beer and now have 8733 Posts |
Mr. Christian is missed!
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edh Inner circle 4698 Posts |
Amen!
Magic is a vanishing art.
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Pete Legend Inner circle Ireland 1401 Posts |
Just thinking the same, he was a gentleman. I always feel a little sad when an old thread pops up and I read his replies (They are always so detailed and filled with true knowledge)
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