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AC Vent
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Hey folks,

Having a recent mouth string break on a hard figure, I'm wondering if any of you have tales/experience with this happening at a gig.

Do those of you with hard figures have a "replace the strings" schedule?

Do you have an instant routine for "when the string breaks"?

Do you keep a backup duplicate?

The string break I just had, you could not tell visually it was going to go, it looked fine...totally unexpected. It was however, from a 20 year old figure that might have still had the original strings.

AC
Ony Carcamo
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I experienced it twice DURING a show--once with my Lovik figure, and once with my the Mack-Marshall figure.

I simply turned the head 180 degrees and the figure told me he had neckache and can no longer turn his head. We did a few more conversations and I had to get him out and start a new routine with a hew figure/puppet.

I learned my lesson. Now I inspect the inside of the head of all my hard figures and make sure that there are no frictions on the string while it's moving. I haven't had the breaking of the string experience since then.
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Father Photius
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I did once. In a moment of panic I came up with the idea to reverse the rest of the routine, so I threw in some comment that now the dummy was going to be the vent and me the dummy. So the dummy spoke in my voice without moving his lips and I moved mine and spoke in the dummy (reversing lines of both characters), got through the routine and it went over amazingly well.
"Now here's the man with the 25 cent hands, that two bit magician..."
cardone
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I stopped and made a monumental moment out of it ....LAdies in Gentlemen ! The moment that happens in all Ventriloquists lives......etc..... then I used my finger on the side of the slot JAw ... this bit worked ...and I almost kept it in the show.....
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