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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
I love David's adaptation to coins as well
However I don't want to overlook a tribute to: Ammar, Michael: Easy To Mater Money Miracles Vol 2. 1995. Shadow coins. The routine is very thorough letting the coins travel from outer left to inner right corner and then from inner right to inner left and then upper right before meeting one by one at the upper right corner (instead of the traditional matrix upper left). A presentation along the steps of Juan Tamariz’s magic way, discarding along the routine every possible solution. The extra coin is supplied by a shell and Michael offers a very nice clean up to re stack the shell at the end (a false turnover could be added for a version on a table). Two coins in each hand. Shelled coin on top of the two coins in right. Classic palm the shell. Have the coins examined. As coins are returned restack the shell rubbing the coins in the other hand to conceal the tiny noise. Table the two far coins (shelled coin on the far right slightly slightly closer to the inner right and left). Adjust the coins, stealing the shell as the coin out of line is adjusted and lay the shell on the far right keeping the coin under the base of the thumb (or as Dean Dill does, under the heel of the little finger). Anonymous : Cap Matrix; Magic Unlimited Strasbourg (France) The trick is made of small plastic cylinders (one of them has a shell as in Whit Haydn’s metal weights) Pôl [Asnar, Paul]. « Dé...routant ». Editions Cardini Club 1979. reproduced in Revue Magicus n° 117 2001. 5 pages and 26 figures describing this magnificent vertical Chink-a-Chink with four dice, placed behind cards. The dice magically meet behind one single card. Billis, Bernard. At one show in the “Plus Grand Cabaret Du Monde” series French Channel 2, Bernard presented the Sands routine with buttons, the last one ending sewn on the silk. Carré, David. Pabular p.365 Production of four dice and their use for a chink a chink. Colombini, Aldo. World's Greatest Magic – Matrix. Matrix / Chink-a-Chink. Costi, Steve: Magic From Italy Vol 52 Greater Magc Video Series Chink A Chink Cummins, Paul. Knichc A Knihc. Apocalypse Vol 10 # 10 p 1405 Diamond, Paul - Lessons in Magic - V3 - Mr. Humble [VHS] & Videonics PROGRAM #77 Paul Diamond Vol. 3. Chink a Chink using plastic bottle caps Dill, Dean : No extra’s Extreme Dean Vol 2. A very direct effect using no shell and no extra coin or object (uses the flick and some displacement sleights) and performing the effect in diamond formation. The flick could be replaced by a right hand displacement crossing the hands flat on the table when getting into rest position.*** No extra’s instant assembly. Brilliant use of hand displacement and flick.*** Duraty. Magie pour rire Tome 1 Bière qui roule n'amasse pas mousse Chink a chink routine where beer caps transform into fruit juice caps. & Revue de la Prestidigitation N° 421 a practical solution to steal the extra bottle cap. Eldin, Peter: The Magic Handbook.1985, Simon & Schuster, 189 pages. p 18 Chink a Chink: Matrix routine with sugar cubes covered by hands. Elliott, Bruce: Classic Secrets of Magic. 1953, llustrated by Stanley Jaks, Harper & Row - Galahad Books. p 93 Chapter 8: The Two Covers and the Four Objects: Chink A Chink type effects with Coins and Cards and another version with Magazines covering cards Farrell, Bob. The Art of Close Up Magic Vol 1 by Lewis Ganson p 333 Four Dice Chink-A-Chink: Dice and the dice pips transport one by one to the same corner Garcia, Daniel. Sh4de DVD. Daniel Garcia’s version without any extra coin or shell Goshman Albert. Magic by Gosh. The life and times of Albert Goshman by Patrick Page 1985. "Chink-A-Chink". Four beer caps travel from hand to hand, a giant beer cap appearing at the end under the salt shaker. Translation in French by Alain Devals in La magie de Goshman, "Chink-a-Chink" p. 68 à 73, 10 figures explicatives. Editions Guy Lore et Daniel Vuittenez, 1987 Haydn, Whit: Chink A Chink (marketed effect) The trick is achieved with little weights one of them being cleverly gaffed Hoe, Yank. Art of Magic by Nelson Downs. “Sympathetic coins” is sometimes erroneously credited as the first chink a chink. It actually is a matrix effect achieved with four coins and two pieces of paper. The effect is reprinted in Bobo’s New Modern Coin Magic The trademark of chink a chink is that only the hands are used to cover the travelling objects, whether the objects are sugar lumps, coins, keys, dice, beer caps, rings or rolled up Kleenex… Kam, Kurtis: Kurtis Kam's Deceptions in Paradise Video. Chink A Chink. Klan, Rune. Three Pieces of Silver video 1997 Translated in French as Le voyage Sympathique » p. 4 and 5 of the Revue Imagik n° 17 October, no gimmick and ends clean. Kort, Milton: Kort is Now in Session P 63 Chink-A-Chink from William Larsen into a lengthy dice routine. Uses 5 red dice (about 5/8"), a similarly sized green die, and a double sized die Korth, Jens. The Art Of Close Up Magic Vol 2 p 258 Roulette: A routine using poker chips and a roulette cloth. The chips vanish, penetrate, change places and colors. Uses a few gimmicked chips. Phased routine includes a penetration, a Chink-a-Chink sequence, flying counters, a color change, and a climax. Malini, Max. Malini-Bey Chink-a-Chink. Stars of Magic. Series 3, N° 3. 1947 -Tannen Publications. Four sugar lumps are placed in a square formation. The magician places his hands over two of the sugars. One by one the sugars meet at one of the points. Originally the routine became well known thanks to Max Malini but Mohamed Bey (Leo Horowitz, another genius) improved it mainly in avoiding the hands crossing. Malmros, Gert: Chink A Chink Coins. 8 page booklet (1980) by Gert Malmros from Sweden fully explaining his Chink A Chink four coin assembly Routine. This is a sit down routine at a table. The four coins are placed in four corners of the table and covered by the hands. One by one they travel across ending with all four coins under one hand. Marconick. Marconcik’s Super Magic p 2 Les spheres nomads. The effect is performed with three balls (the fourth one being stolen as the third one is taken out from the pocket) Rindfleisch, Joe. Extreme Coin Magic DVD Matrixy. No extra coin is used. An actual improvement on David Roth’s Chink A Chink and Michael Ammar’s Shadow coins. During the setting up his idea to arrange the visible coins with the dirty hand is nice but the performer should give some movement to the right hand as well. High Rise Matrix is a superb idea of palming a piece of flesh colour clay to gain depth in the coin picking. It achieves something like the Charlie Frye’s matrix with dice: the height of the hand above the travelling object destroys any suspicion of palming (the hand doesn’t even touches the coin). In Joe’s routine the absence of cards supplies an even greater deception than in Charlie Frye’s effect. This is a really great gimmick and Joe supplies a smart idea to disengage it at the proper moment. If performing standing the Cool Clean Up works with the gimmick on. Rink. The Art Of Close Up Magic Vol 2. p 112 Chink A Chink Simplified: Chink-a-Chink using any small lightweight objects and a tiny bit of double sticky tape Rosenthal, Harvey. Perfect Coin Assembly. New Stars of Magic. Volume 1, Number 5. Tannen Publications - 1973, 7 pages and 42 figures. Four coins are placed at the four corners of a silk. The corners of the silk are folded over each of the coins concealing them from view. They all meet at the upper left corner. Each travel is more difficult to understand than the previous one. The last travel is made under impossible conditions. Roth, David: A Lecture by David Roth. 1977, Chinese coin assembly. & Same routine in Apocalypse, Vol 1, N° 1, 1978, an additional coin is used and the hand cross during the routine. Ultra coin assembly. Coin Magic by Richard Kaufmann - 1981. p 51: the hands no longer cross and an additional coins is used & Chinese coin assembly. Expert Coin Magic & Chink A Chink. Ultimate Coin Manipulation Collection & New York Coin Magic Seminar Vol One Coins Across. Chink A Chink. David has very unique circular movement to bring the coin at the bas of the thumb when it still seems at the fingertips. Sachs, Edwin: Sleight of hand p 40/41 describes Chink a chink with sugar lumps (since the book was published before 1875, it cannot be claimed that Max Malini, born in 1873, was the inventor of the trick. Sands, George & Van Slyker. “Birds of a Feather”. The Tarbell Course in Magic by Harlan Tarbell, 1954 vol. 6. p. 148-152. This “New version” uses only four coins and a handkerchief by folding its corners over the coins. Schneider, Al. the Al Schneider Technique Vol 1 Chink a Chink. With the pause as an old Buddhist Monk. The routine illustrates the importance of devoting some time for the effect to sink in after the revelation of the result. Al uses a very smart on the table secret hand change which allows the moves to look exactly the same. Best routine I know of in terms of effect. Schulien, Matt. The Magic of Matt Schulien by Philip Reed Willmarth - 1959. The Cards and the Cigarette; p. 100 to 106. A borrowed cigarette is broken into four pieces. After traveling under a card, the cigarette is restored and handed back to the owner of the cigarette. The pieces are ditched under the table. Stone, David. La Magie des pieces Cocktail Matrix is a standing version of chink a chink with four silver and a penny using an extra coin (a double facer) as misdirection. Placing the last move in the spectator’s hand is interesting. Thompson, John: Polished Polish Prestidigitation. Jeff Busby 1981. p 29 Chink-A-Chink: John Thompson's superb handling of the original Max Malini routine. Commercial Classics of Magic DVD: Chink a Chink with EL variant of sliding the lumps (not credited) but I taught it to him when he came to Paris for my birthday and he taught me the one I’m using now, having only added the Charlie Miller - Scott York Diamond formation. York, Scott. Scott York Lecture Magic Castle. page 41 Another Perspective on Chink-A-Chink. Using beer caps the routine brings in the Diamond formation created by Charlie Miller. Translation in French by Jean-Pierre Meunier, p. 18-19 de la Revue Arcane n° 45 de janvier 1987 Williamson, David. Williamson Wonders by Richard Kaufman. 1989. Translated in French by Jean-Jacques Sanvert as Les Merveilles de Williamson par Richard Kaufman. Ed. Mayette Magie Moderne - 1994. Sleight of Dave Must be somethin’ I ate. This is an in the hands Chink a chink appearing like a coins across routine, which can easily be made to look more direct and can be used when no table is available.
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mavericklancer Elite user Tustin, CA 448 Posts |
Lawrence, your dedication to preserving bibliographies and credits is astounding. Out of curiosity, do you have these citations written down in a giant index of some sort?
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
No, it's just trick by trick because when I study one, before writing a script, I want to know all the existing variants. I would hate reinventing the wheel and fail giving credit where credit is due. However you can see that in the list above I failed noting the exceptionally good version (one of the best) of my friend Marion Boykin.
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BarryTX Regular user 133 Posts |
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Vlad_77 Inner circle The Netherlands 5829 Posts |
Thank you Etienne for the exhaustive bibliography. A slight correction however should be noted: Sach's Sleight of Hand was published in 1885.
I saw the reference to Whit Haydn's routine. There is a version done with weights and the same or similar gaff in Tarbell. अहिंसा Vlad |
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vinsmagic Eternal Order sleeping with the fishes... 10957 Posts |
Etienne, Tom Mullica's name shoud be included in your list of references
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Sean Giles Inner circle Cambridge/ UK 3517 Posts |
Excellent list Lawrence. Thanks so much for taking the time to post it.
I didn't know Marion had a chink a chink effect. Is it published anywhere? I'm a fan of Marions work, but never heard of that one. Kind regards Sean |
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boydy Special user Ayrshire, Scotland 881 Posts |
Dean dill has some amazing variations and John Kennedy's Translocation with the Lefler? backfire is awesome!
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funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9981 Posts |
The pending book "Essential TUC" has a Chink-a-Sway effect in which the sequence of moves can vary, and final display can be in any position. I hope it makes Etienne's list.
No, the TUC is not critical to the routine -- it is just a way of introducing the TUC (or any gaff) into a set of examined coins for later effects. You put a new coin in, you take an old coin out, you wave your hands and move them all about -- you do the hooky-spooky ...
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truesoldier Inner circle 1191 Posts |
Thanks Lawrence, some nice pointers for all of us to research this effect in more depth.
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bblumen Special user Baltimore 987 Posts |
Lawrence O,
Frank Thompson's Chink-A-Chink (The Pallbearers Review, May 1972) should be added to your excellent reference list. This is a way ahead version using bottle caps. To see Thompson do it was a thing of beauty.
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pepka Inner circle Uh, I'm the one on the right. 5041 Posts |
While not quite Chink-a-chink, Dean Deal's assembly with 4 random borrowed objects is really excellent. No gaffs, you can borrow everything. Works with items like a key, coin, piece of candy and a bottle cap. It's not that difficult, but the timing will take a while to get down. Of course, in Dean's hands it looks like a miracle, as do most things. It can be found on the Hit the Road DVD with Lee Asher and Paul Wilson.
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fortasse Inner circle 1201 Posts |
Here's a link (see below) to some of the sets in my Chink-a-Chink collection.
I'm almost finished writing a little book on the history and early development of Chink-a-Chink with performance tips interspersed throughout the text, along with photos. Hope to have it out in e-book form by Xmas. Best sets to perform with? Ordinary bottle caps or truncated corks (can cut them down yourself). They cost nothing and work a whole lot better than any of the "purpose-built" s**** sets. However, if you really want to go with a currently available s**** set, the new "Wandering Chimes" set from Auke van Dokkum (conceived and originated by the late Tommy Wonder) handles beautifully - a bit pricey though. http://s759.photobucket.com/albums/xx238......lection/ Fortasse |
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fortasse Inner circle 1201 Posts |
I should have added that in IMHO the most ingeniously constructed Chink-a-Chink set is the one by Tonny van Rhee. Will completely fool magicians!
The most ingenious set when coupled with its special routine, IMHO, is the set known as "Poker Pot" from Jack Avis. However, both these sets are long out of production and rather hard to find these days. The most beautifully constructed set IMHO is the one by Eddy Taytelbaum. Fortasse |
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
I found two new routines
Alford, Jason & Conn, Doug: Chink A Change ONYX – Number Three ©April 1998 & The Second Deal ©April 25, 1998 & Thinking and Wondering ©1998 by Alford, Jason & Conn, Doug, Hammond, LA, p 16 Four denomination coins Chink A Chink; p 18 ©Jason Alford and Tomas Blomberg: Slow Motion Chink Both were derived from Homer Liwag's work.
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fortasse Inner circle 1201 Posts |
BBlumen : I'm glad you mentioned Frank Thompson's Chink-a-Chink routine. Using the TWO ahead principle (and six you-know-what, instead of the usual five), it's very clever, very entertaining - fun to learn and do - and it packs a solid punch.
If you like using six instead of the usual five, there is another C-a-C routine - sadly too often overlooked - that deserves to be ranked among the best because it involves a combination of magical effects within a neat, compact, well-conceived structure that takes all of 50 seconds to play out. There are the usual transpositions but two different colours are involved and there's a table penetration too. There are other routines with these multiple effects but this one is tops. It's a bit more technically challenging than the usual C-a-C routine because of the need to use a series of shuttle passes and also because there are two different colours you need to keep track of - but it's well worth the effort of learning it right. The name of the routine is "Tibetan Checkers" by Jules de Barros. It was published in Jon Racherbaumer's magic quarterly, The Hierophant, No. 2 (Winter, 1969) & No. 4 (June, 1970). The version in No. 4 is a lot easier to follow than the version in No. 2 which is in an irritating notation form. Fortasse |
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fortasse Inner circle 1201 Posts |
Tim :
Forgot to say how much I enjoyed watching your routine. Great rhythm and timing! Thanks for posting. Sean |
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
In the French site Virtual Magic, Frédéric -Bious- FERRER offers a routine with Nespresso capsules of different colors (explaining how to make the she**s yourself)
Very creative and using a prop more and more recognized worldwide!
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Lawrence O Inner circle French Riviera 6811 Posts |
Born, John: Matrix God's Way book on coin chink a chink with a lot of work based on Dean Dill's approach to the effect.
Chadier, James: French Connection DVD offers many technical variant to achieve the effect. Also on his site http://www.lefaymagic.nl/ in the Download / video section, the Dutch magician Dan Lefay offers his version called FOUR COINS & DAN LEFAY Very clean with a Dean Dill / John Born heritage for a Tommy Wonder's friend Dan also does a chink a chink effect with large pinball balls (steel balls in Lou Serrano's style)
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Denis Bastible Loyal user Buffalo, New York 293 Posts |
Upside down beer bottle caps have to be one of the easiest objects to use in this routine (it is almost impossible to miss or drop a palm because the edges almost dig into your palm and your hand barely has to move to catch the palm)
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