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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
I've done the Roth item as written... It works.
Ammar popularized doing the trick on the floor. AFAIK Kenners looks the most no-touch. Joe Rindfleisch has an impressive version of the trick too.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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harris Inner circle Harris Deutsch 8812 Posts |
LOL
Oh what one letter can do for/to a post. Regarding the floor, that is a great idea. These days, it is a bit harder to get back up. Along with Ammar and Roth, my early days was filled with seeing Goshman doing this with bottle caps instead of coins. "you expected rubies?" Harris
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Ray Haining Inner circle Hot Springs, AR 1907 Posts |
Roth's routine is great. David Roth, himself, is great. With all due respect to Roth's cohorts, Michael Rubenstein, Mike Gallo and the late Geoff Latta, and all the other fine magicians who appear on the 16 volumes of the NY Coin Seminars, after watching all of them, I was struck by how Roth stood out, how he was in a class by himself. I've studied Roth since the 1980s and currently do his one-coin routine.
His Chink-a-Chink, I believe, was the first to use coins as opposed to sugar cubes (Horowitz) or weights (Kaps, Vernon). And his method was--again, I believe--original with him too. I believe Ammar's contribution, beside the use of a gaff, was to use a sweeping motion over, rather than a covering of, the coins. He placed them on the floor, because of the angles, to enhance the effect. I think working on the floor is not good, though (although I'm not above kneeling in front of a coffee table). I will add that John Born does a nice version. Will Houstoun's version, done to music, which he performs (and explains) in his lecture for International Magic, takes the idea of the hands just sweeping over the coins a bit of a step further. He does it seated at the table, not on the floor. The angles look good. It's one of the most beautiful routines I've ever seen. That doesn't mean any of these routines are better than Roth's. Roth also ties his in with his wonderful version of Winged Silver. |
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