We're on a thing about Houdini and coins, and it took us back to the days when, with the aid of Coco the talking parrot, we used to teach magic to the would-be-initiates of old San Francisco.
We promised never to teach anything cheap or cheesy, so the very first trick in the curriculum was Houdini's Four-Coin Assembly, an excellent variation of which you can see in the video.
It's a beautiful illusion and not too difficult to learn. We billed it as "Houdini's Favorite Close-Up Trick," based on his own writeup which appears in Houdini on Magic. It kept them coming back for more.
(We note that Mark Wilson borrowed Houdini's exact version for his own course on magic.)
This is a very good version of Matrix, but it's not the Houdini/Wilson Coin Assembly. The Houdini Coin Assembly was a version of what is known then as "The Sympathetic Coins".
ReplyDeleteThat's where coins would be placed in the four corners as in the standard Matrix style, but that's where the difference is. Each coin is placed under the table cloth to disappear one by one to be joined under the one card.
Your routine is not even the Schneider Matrix trick, but a very good variation of it. Your routine, the coins disappear all at once instead of one at a time. Different, but still very stunning.
Yes, you're quite right, thanks for the clarification!
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