An excellent way to dispose of the T.U.C. at the end of a routine using it is to switch it out with one of the finest completely invisible, perfectly quiet one- handed moves in existance...the old DeManche Change.

A switch like this happens in front of the spectator's nose. He never knows it takes place, he doesn't know it needs to happen.

In my case, I steal a regular half with my left from my handout, while producing the T.U.C. for the final hand with my right. I transfer the T.U.C. to the fingertips of my left, while the regular half is in Regular Finger Palm.

I do the transposition right in front of them as I talk. They can be looking right at it.

After the switch, the T.U.C. can go to the holdout when convenient.

This change happens instantaneously. I suspect it is the move Ponta makes in the first visual change between Morgan and Japanese coin right at the start of his advertisement for Sick. It's one of the most useful switches/changes in all of magic, and I imagine by now it is known by some other, more modern name...but DeManche Change is the name I learned for that slick move back in about '75.

I highly reccomend learning this efficent one handed switch. Everyone working with coins needs something like this in their magical arsenal, and it isn't tremendously difficult to learn.

Hello friends,

I'm in Blackpool Congress, I gave my lecture this morning, 100 % about TUC, the people received the lecture very well and they loved TUC.
Now I'm going to Madrid to give 4 lectures and then I will work full for the book "Essential TUC" that Ken Mule is writing.

Thank you very much for your support.

Bye.

Good luck over there, Mr. Tango. Oh - and have a good time!

We'll keep you busy as soon as you get back!

Jim

in the book it is called a Shuttle Pass if the new coin is the same as the first, and a Utility Switch if it is different. I'll happy to include your name if you can document that it precedes BoBo.

There are several other methods for a SwitchIn or SwitchOut in the book also including idea for using one effect to provide the proper set up for the next.

The Demanche Change precedes the Bobo version in the "The Amateur Magician's Handbook" from 1950. Bobo calls this "The One Handed Switch". Hay's sticks to what Bobo calls the "crotch" thumb position throughout, (which Hays refers to that as a "regular thumb palm", instead of moving it from crotch to a pinch style thumb hold...Bobo adds that extra movement, muddying up the move and making it harder to repeat.

In my opinion, as is usual when comparing Bobo to Hays, the Hay's version is simpler, more perfect, and infinately superior in clearness. TAH only contains a smidgeon of coin hand magic next to CM, but, it's superior photos and unrushed explanations make it a better learning tool with what it chooses to teach.

Bobo is a cover-all encyclopedia...but Hay's teaches what it offers.

For my money, this transposition, whether it's "The Demanche Change" or "The One Handed Switch", is the gem of all one handed instant transpositions between 2 coins. Soundless, safe, instantaneous and invisible in skilled hands. It can be a trick unto itself, or a tool with countless uses and is a must have little series of seamless chicanery.

Thanks, Hare -- it is different from the ones I descibe, but certainly would have a use -- if even for variety. I avoid one-hand switches because of arthritic thumbs. I do include Mb's one hand Crimp Change that I con't do either.

Wouldn't a Spellbound work?

In some cases, but many of my Sway Sleights can't get from there. For me, a Spellbound position is an unnatural way of holding a coin -- making me perhaps the only person in the world who doesn't like it. I try to hold my hands and fingers the same way a lay person would when tossed a coin, which is why I also perform 3Fly type effect with my hands at waist height and palms up and fingers empty except for the displayed coins.

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Does the T.U.C. come in Walking Liberty coins?

If so, how much is the cost in US dollars and where to get it??

I understand that the Kennedy 50 cent T.U.C. costs $79.00.

How many coins would be needed if I need to send him the coins??
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Awaiting shipment of a T.U.C. !!!

Sal, Mr Tango was flying from Spain yesterday, so he just arrived to Buenos Aires, contact him directly and he will be able to help you

pablo

Salby, I don’t believe that he has them in stock, but he does make them on request. I don’t know how many coins must be provided but I would expect two at the least and three at most.

Jim

Three coins must be provided...a few days ago I inquired about it from Mr. Tango and he responded with the requirement and price for the custom piece...

I am now gonna gather up three matching (soft) Morgans to send to him...

Yes...

He did get back to me (He's been busy with touring at the moment).

He will take 3 of my WL's and make a T.U.C.

Such a nice guy

The technique with several or with one single coin appeared in print for the first time in Ponsin, Jean Nicolas: La sorcellerie ancienne et moderne expliquée. 1853 and Librairie Encyclopédique Roret reprint - 1858. Ponsin’s book is the first book, after Scott’s Discovery of Witchcraft with a full section purely on coin effects: it was the first to offer the classic palm, the thumb palm, the click pass and... the Shuttle Pass (p 211 in the first edition or p 154 in the Roret edition)

The names of Stanley Collins and David Roth are however attached for ever to the Shuttle Pass. Stanley Collins substantially predates Bobo on the Utility Switch and he is the one who coined the name Shuttle Pass. David Roth is the one who popularized the versatility of the move with only one coin (using the name created by Stanley Collins for what we now call the Utility Switch) to a point where he engraved his own name into the sleight.

Jay Sankey also has a variant where the coin is seen falling (actually from the same hand finger palm) in the receiving palm and many other magicians have brought subtleties to the Shuttle Pass

Now in Michael Rubinstein's fabulous Encyclopedia of Coin Sleights DVDs, there is a full section on the Shuttle Pass including very interesting and precious fingertip variants of the move which deserve being honored by using them with a creation as revolutionary as Mr Tango's TUC.

Hello friend,

Just to put a link where you can see a review of my lecture about TUC in Blackpool
http://www.magicconventionguide.com/2010......lecture/

I'm trying to organize a lecture tour in USA, if somebody has interest to have my lecture in your magic club, please let me know.

Bye

Mr. Tango.... A signed coin to pepper?!?! C'mon now, you have to show us that one! BTW, was that with a TUC?

Thanks!

Jim

Yes a signed coin (both sides signed) to a pepper. This is part of my lecture

Actually the routine been from Argentina should be "Coin to the Morron" or "Moneda al Morron", we call the bell peppers Morron, it is the Spanish name for a type of peeper that in Argentina we extended to almost every squaring rounded shaped pepper

Morron sounds more mysterious I think ...

We need a video of this routine ...

Hello everyone

I've been performing Joshua Jay's Invisible Coins Routine using a Flipper and ]. Recently I have been planning on upgrading my flipper to Tango's Gravity Pro although I wonder if the TUC along with an expanded shell would do the job better.
Any thoughts and help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Guys