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Jewls Veteran user Michigan-USA 360 Posts |
I am writing a clown bit for a wedding reception (YES) and would love to find or make a small confetti bucket that can also be used for misers dream, thoughts and suggestions Please & Thank you! javascript:emoticon(' ')
Jewls
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0pus Inner circle New Jersey 1739 Posts |
What is a 'confetti bucket?'
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Bill Hegbli Eternal Order Fort Wayne, Indiana 22797 Posts |
Don't see how a Confetti Bucket could also be used for the Miser's Dream, because of the pre-loading of the confetti. Just find a matching bucket and switch it during the show.
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jimgerrish Inner circle East Orange, NJ 3209 Posts |
The original "Confetti Bucket" was done with "sleight of bucket" before some enterprising magic builder decided to adapt the Foo Can and make a bucket that could be sold in magic stores. They don't sell well because Clowns generally don't buy expensive props when they are so easily made. One substitute method makes use of a less expensive "Milk Pitcher" to "fill the bucket with liquid". But the real circus clowns know that one of them has to take a real bucket of water in the face to convince the audience that is what is in store for them when the wet clown chases around the other clown with apparently the same bucket, for the confetti conclusion. That is usually best done with a bucket switch as Bill suggests. But you don't need to buy a $70 Confetti Bucket and then try to find a match for it. Visit the Dollar Store or hardware and just pick up two inexpensive identical buckets and you're in business. Now you just have to find ones that make a nice clang when you drop coins in it, so once you are done fooling around with confetti and water, you can miserly dream all you want. I prefer not sticking my hand inside the bucket to perform the Dream and if you want to keep your hands outside the bucket, you'll find my methods described in "Misers and Their Dreams" in the Wizards' Journal #29.
Jim Gerrish
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Bill Hegbli Eternal Order Fort Wayne, Indiana 22797 Posts |
With the bucket that has a handle, it is easy to attaché a coin/washer to the handle and that can make the sound with a finger flick. I can't remember where I read that set up, it is very old method that works.
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts |
Bill~
That was a method "developed" by a Verne Chesbro, way back when I was in my teens! IIRC, Abbott's sold instructions for it. I can't remember if they sold a pail with it. Karrell Fox "re-invented" the idea, years later, in one of his lectures. I played around with a "foo pail" in the '40s. It was totally impractical. The circus clown "two buckets" method is much more practical.
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0pus Inner circle New Jersey 1739 Posts |
So, Jewls, what is the clown bit/skit you intend to do for the wedding? What are the conditions under which you are performing? Are you performing alone or with other clowns? Will you be doing something of a show, or will you be mingling/strolling? Fill us in on your plans.
On the confetti pail, whenever I had seen clowns do this (or the Harlem Globetrotters, or the boy scouts, even), they did not use a gimmicked pail; they used a pail switch. As Jim points out, the real convincer is to dowse another clown for real. |
Bill Hegbli Eternal Order Fort Wayne, Indiana 22797 Posts |
Now I remember, the Chesbro coin pail routine is explained in the book "MY BEST", page 298, sells for $10.
Abbott's use to make a Chesbro's coin, but I looked and did not see it listed currently. It is a nice way to produce the coin. |
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