TARBELL COURSE IN MAGIC - Vol 7
8 lessons, 490 pages, hundreds of illustrations. Includes: More Mental Magic, Card Magic, Rope Magic, Novelty Magic, Money Magic, Silk Magic, Illusions You Can Make, Late Arrivals.
Comments: One of my favorite volumes, this one edited by Harry Lorayne, and has some more "modern" effects than the other volumes. Has some excellent effects, and includes a complete index for Volumes 1-7.
Contents:
xi Slute to Harlan Tarbell. The Story of the Tarbell Course in Magic with sample advertisements xvii Tribute to Magic's Greatest Teacher by Frances Marshall
Lesson 84 More Mental Magic: 21 The Telepathic Pill boxes: chosen box reveals color 24 Pavel's Predicta Rope: Spectator ties 3 color rope. Magician pulls rope from bag in same order. 26 Bergson's Non-Center Tear: Method to read written selection 29 Spirit Transposition: Mini Slate Routine 31 Overdrawn: 100 One dollar bills placed in hat, some are removed, Magician knows how many 32 Louis Phillips' Calcutta: Geographic card location found on map 34 Addition Prediction: 5x5 math grid 37 Ed Schuman's Sightless Sight: business card revelation 40 Ken Beale's Triple ESP Prediction: ESP cards 44 Your Read My Mind: One of 4 cards reversed and with red back 48 Ken Krenzel's Never Say Die: spectator rolls die, other spectator guesses, they match 52 Mento Pen: Novel idea using Flair (TM) pen 55 A Spectator Reads a Mind: spectator predicts card selection 58 The Antique Medallon (Glenn Gravatt): written date found on coin 60 Classified Ad (Joe White): Random ad torn out, predicted in envelope 62 Max Lister's Easy Message Reading: burnt message is read
Lesson 85 Card Magic: 64 Fred Lowe's Card In Glass: selected card found in inverted glass 67 Audley Walsh's 3 Card Monte: Matchbook marker 70 Barry Stevenson's Card in Wallet: Unprepared Wallet 73 Bob Gunther's Repeat Card to Wallet: gimmicked 76 Eric Peterson's Card Prediction: Giant card on stand 79 Mel Jones' Shower of Cards: Cards thrown, selected card caught 82 Ludor Fiedler's Sure Fire Force: gimmick card 84 X Equals Five: Paper shown with message. When folded, reveals card 86 Die-Duction: dice added, total equals magician's card 91 Mental Thought Pin Up Girls: 6 blanks shown, spectator thinks: 4 are pin ups! 93 Oriental Decoder Prediction: Comedy Oriental writing 95 Orville Meyer's Miniscope: Laminated Mini Cards Shown, one selected, it falls off! 98 Baxter-Lorayne Wrap Around Reverse: reversing card to middle 100 Dave Lederman's Combo Gambling/Closeup Display Board: how to make 103 Bob Baxter's Rising & Vanishing Card: under a silk 105 Irving Berk's Card Forcing Box with ideas 108 Alan Alan's Rising Cards: "Dual Control" 112 Mesmerised Cards: Fanned Cards suspended from hand (dual control) 114 Bob McAllister's Bet A Dollar Color change 116 Topsy Turvey Follow Me: Do as I Do 119 Tony Noice's Card Transpo: Intant to middle of deck 121 Rising Cards From Envelope: Bill Severn/Pete Biro: uses pencil 125 Nick Conticello's Seeing Thru the Deck 128 Two Hindu Forces of more than One Card: Barnhart/Lorayne 133 Boston Lorayne Card Change 135 Dennis Marks' Stripper Spin Revere: Stripper Deck sleight 137 Non Telephone Telephone Trick: cards discarded until only selected left 139 A Red & Black Separation: Red & Black packets mixed, separate
Lesson 86 Rope Magic: provides general discussion, list of categories 145 Tarbell's Chinese Rope Chain: 6' rope tied in 3 loops, all cut & restored 147 Many Cut Rope Mystery: multiple cut & restored rope 150 Tarbell's Sympathetic Ropes: Ropes in bowl. Rope copies rope #2 knotting, cutting, etc. 153 Tarbell's Zip Over Rope Mystery: straight and knotted ropes change places 156 Crocheting With Your Teeth: string cut, put in mouth, and restored 159 Borrowed Ring on Loop of String: Ring on String, knot disappears
Lesson 87 Novelty Magic 163 Borrowed Ring In Box: Ring vanishes, found in box held by spectator 167 TV Surprise: From handkerchief, 3 coins, 2 balls, 2 cigarettes, and matches appear. Then the matches and cigarettes disappear. 171 Ed Michell's Ribbon Cut: cut and restored 173 Electrostatic Cigarette: Swizzle stick moves cigarette by "static electricity" 176 Glenn Gravatt's Word Matching: Word picked is matched by letter cards 181 Color Ring Transpo: under handkerchief 183 Glenn Gravatt's Color Ring Penetration: Selected ring removed from rope 186 Ungimmicked Baloon Penetration: Baloon placed in tube, a pencil is pushed through 187 Dave Lederman's Thimbles & Pea: Shell game 191 Diminishing Golf Ball: Shrinks twice under handkerchief, then vanishses 193 Milton Tropps Impromptu Broken/Restored Thread: not quite impromptu 197 Leslie P. Guests' Do It Yourself Magic: A picture of a box is folded, silks are removed 199 Ear It Is: Pencil vanishes, then paper 202 Morty Rudnick's Funny Force: Buddah paper and comedy force 207 Visible Penetration, Glenn Gravatt: block penetrates glass cover 209 Color Changing Knives: 2 knife routine with handkerchief. Basic move, throught the fist change, handkerchief switch, reveal two knives, transpose colors, and suggestions for end. Knife roll, Barnhart flip moves. 214 Uncanny Penetrating Rubber Bands: Band thru band 217 Impromptu Cigarettes From Mid Air 219 Another Ribbon Penetration: ring on ribbon in hat 221 Flip's Flipstick: stick appears & disappears 226 Flip's Vanishing Glass: Party stunt results in vanished glass 230 Flip's Silk and Wand: Wand appears and vanishes under silk
Lesson 88 Money Magic 234 X-Cel: penny vanishes from between paper sheets using pen 236 Bandit Bill: folded bill suspends on rubber band 238 Gimmicked Coins: discussion of various 241 Copper/Silver thru table: uses mag c/s. Selected coin through table 243 Disjointed Account: Uses expanded sh, cute banking story 246 Ultimate C/S: Sh & double insert 248 Sol Stone's Changing Chips: Chip changes color 4 times, uses sleights 251 Sol Stone's Visual C/S: C/S Transpo, no gimmicks 254 Continuous Coin Production and vanish using only 2 coins 255 Sol Stone's Miser's Dream move 257 Sensitized Paper: mini blank card between coins prints selection 262 3 and 3: C/S transpo using 6 coins 263 Charlatan Chips: 2 colored chips transpose under 2 silks 265 Balancing Coins: on glass (dual control) 267 An Amazing Vanish: Coin vanish move by David Roth 269 Another Amazing Vanish (Roth): both hands shown empty 271 Vincent Sabatino's Bill Tube Presentation 278 Boxed Coins (Cervon): 4 coins in hand to Okito box one by one 281 Tony Spina's Coin Through Table: Coin slapped through table move 283 Willie Schneider's Penny Inflation: penny & silver dollar change places, but penny grows to size of dollar! 285 Frank Garcia's Flip Over Penny: Penny & Dime set, locking 287 Nickel to Dime routine (Tom Fitzgerald): Nickle stack to dimes 289 Ee-Zee Money (Fugi A. Fuchs): Money printed from "plates" 294 Hair There & Everywhere (marty Rudnick): Nickles & sugar packs interact with invisible hair 299 No Lapping Coins Thru Table: Hoo coins 302 The Travelers: Coins Travel Hand to Hand, no gimmicks 308 Lenny Green Fader's Traveling Coins Addition: 4 coins 308 Alan Alan's Decimated Coin Trick: uses prepared coin wallet
Lesson 89 Silk Magic 312 Phoa's Cut & Restored Silk 316 Pavel's Silk from Confetti Shower: Confetti tossed, silk materializes 318 Pavel's The Jumping Silk 320 Sucker Silk Color Change: Silks with words printed change places
Lesson 90 Illusions- includes a discussion 324 Phantom BlackArt Platform: wooden frame 329 Girl In the Trunk Mystery: using above 333 Girl In the Audience: BlackArt 336 Sawing a Woman in Half 344 The Sword Box 347 The Penetrating Steel Bar: similar to sword box, above 350 The Indestructable Girl: yet another similar effect
Lesson 91: Late Arrivals 352 Morty Rudnick's Coinflation: diminishing glass 355 Herb Zarrow's Switch Change: Instant coin change 357 Sam Schwartz's Telephone number prediction 362 The Personalized Paddle: lines appear and vanish, finally the spectator's name appears 365 Bob McAllister's Cavorting Sponge Balls: matrix type effect 371 Herb Zarrow's Trapeze: flourish ending 371 Pavel's Blow Knot: like Tenyo's Crystal Tube: 3 silks blown from tube tie together 379 Jack Tillar's Blister: Fingertip burnt without harm 381 Mike Tannen's Sliding & Vanishing Knot 383 Bob McAllister's Linking Baloons 386 Brooks Conner's Baffling Bayer Box: Coin vanishes from aspirin tin 389 Copper or Silver: C/S mixed, spectator chooses, other vanishes under table
393 Last Word 395 Complete Indices to Tarbell's Course In Magic Volumes 1-7, sorted by Title, Name, and Category
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