Monday, October 22, 2018

What Happened at the Meeting on Friday 19th October



Apparatus magic was the theme of the night and Andrew Pickard, better known as Warden, was the host.
He opened the session with a clever penetration trick, The Great Wong’, acquired from the late Konni Rooklyn.   A card with a hole through the middle, was positioned on a stand.   A scroll of Chinese writing was unrolled, rerolled and placed in the stand.   The card penetrated the scroll

David Whitson, our president, was next with a sliding die box.   An oldie but a goodie

Noel Clair gave an excellent demonstration of the ring on the string.   Using perfect sleight-of-hand, he made the ring disappear, reappear and change positions.   He finished with his world famous ‘four coin trick’ where coins magically go from one hand to the other

Our latest new member Geoff Clark finished the show with a medley of apparatus tricks.   Using an apparatus which could be freely examined, moved coins from one side of the table to the other.   Quick, neat and effective
A chosen card was revealed in a plastic sleeve which was self illuminating.   An excellent method of a card revelation not seen before

It was a good night with a combination of apparatus tricks combined with good, old fashioned sleight-of-hand

As one well known magician once said…'Of all the magic in the land, give me clever sleight-of-hand’

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