Instruments

35 entries in Instruments

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Henri Decremps	Automate Jouant de la Flûte au Commandement, Quoique Bien Isolé, au Milieu d'un Jardin; Nouvelles Tables Sur lesquelles on Fait Mouvoir des Machines à Volonté, Sans Bascules, Sans Fil d'archal & Sans Aimant.	musical automaton by Van Estin, playing the flute and instruments, mechanism of moving a table		1784	La Magie Blanche Dévoilée	82	Articles / Anecdotes Automaton / Fake Instruments
Oswald Rae	Musical Thought Transference	spectators get lists of tunes and select one, later different lists are shown and spectators who see their tune say so, tune then divined by playing it on piano, matrix principle and location of spectators in the audience	Related to Silentalism (Philip T. Goldstein, 2003)	1926	Between Ourselves	60	Propless / Coding / Using Assistant Mental Magic / Principles / Sound Reading Mental Magic / Effects / Two Person Telepathy Mental Magic / Effects / Divination by Musician Instruments
	Thimble and Trumpet	thimble blown through toy trumpet		1937	The Magic Annual for 1937	31	Toy Thimble / Miscellaneous Instruments
Hervel	L'archet de Paganini	violin bow vanishes wrapped in paper		Jan. 1942	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 4 No. 1)	7	Instruments
Wilbur T. Kattner	The Perfect Pitch Test	chords are transmitted, people hold fingers on piano keys and think of the sound		1945	My Best	206	Propless / Coding / Using Assistant Mental Magic / Effects / Divination Mental Magic / Effects / Divination by Musician Instruments
Dr. H. Walter Grote	Try This On Your Piano	on a piano	Inspired by Frame Of Mind (Al O'Hagan, 1945)	1945	Miracles in Mentalism and Psychic Experimentation	32	Mental Magic / Principles / Impression Devices Mental Magic / Effects / Divination Mental Magic / Effects / Divination by Musician Instruments
Jesse Schimmel	Playing a Playing Card	harmonica in playing card, pun		Dec. 1950	Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 8 No. 7)	731	Cards / Effect Themes / Gags & Curiousities / Gags Instruments
Bert Allerton	The Flutist	cutting a straw into a flute		1958	The Close-Up Magician	42	Straw Instruments
Tony Corinda	(15) The Stage Spirit Cabinet	different effects (instruments etc.) special rope		1959	Mediumistic Stunts	286	Rope / Knots for Escapes Mental Magic / Effects / Seance Stuff Illusions / Spirit Cabinet Instruments
R. W. Grosholz	Musical Thoughts	different billets with songs, three are selected and pianist divines them by playing them on a piano		1959	More Miracles in Mentalism	10	Mental Magic / Effects / Divination by Musician Instruments Apparatus / Changing & Switching Devices
Al Davids	Mental Music	piano, one of six songs is divined		1969	Entertaining Mental Miracles	5	Propless / Coding / Using Assistant Mental Magic / Effects / Two Person Telepathy Mental Magic / Effects / Divination by Musician Instruments
Stan Blumenthal	Ghostly Guitar	guitar plays by itself		1976	Magick (Issue 164)	819	Instruments
Ron Wilson	Music Menta	piano player divines selected tunes	Also published here Psychic Bandleader (Ron Wilson, 1987)	1977	Magick (Issue 179)	891	Mental Magic / Effects / Divination by Musician Instruments
Stephen Minch	The Music of Erich Zann	séance performance, metronome starts moving and violin and music box start playing under glass bowl	Also published here The Music of Erich Zann (Stephen Minch, 2009)	1979	Lovecraftian Ceremonies	36	Mental Magic / Effects / Seance Stuff Instruments Thread / Invisible Thread / Miscellaneous
Leo Kostka	The Jupiter Effect	tuning fork held by spectator starts to sound		1981	Magick (Issue 287)	1431	Mental Magic / Effects / Seance Stuff Instruments
Eric Mason, Barrie Richardson	Music	prediction of a note, played on a piano		1982	A Boon for All Seasons	31	Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Instruments Pen & Pencil / Nail Writer & Swami
	The Spirit Violin	No. 96, violin starts to play in dark room		1983	101 Psychic Tests	27	Mental Magic / Effects / Seance Stuff Dark Room Effects Instruments
Dr. Dan J. Alessini	Psi-Kazoo	different colored Kazoo (instruments), chosen one is predicted in envelope, humorous routine		Nov. 1984	Magick (Issue 342)	1709	Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Miscellaneous Paper / Envelopes / Window Envelope Instruments Pen & Pencil / Nail Writer & Swami
	The Magic Flute	No. 36, flute from paper, only performer can make sound		1985	Self-Working Paper Magic	63	Paper / Miscellaneous Instruments
Tommy Tucker	Music on the Spheres	sound waves are placed inside a handkerchief, music can be heard		June 1986	Magick (Issue 373)	1861	Mental Magic / Effects / Seance Stuff Instruments
Ron Wilson	Psychic Bandleader	piano player divines selected tunes, two methods	Also published here Music Menta (Ron Wilson, 1977)	1987	The Uncanny Scot, Ron Wilson	95	Mental Magic / Effects / Divination by Musician Instruments
Hiroshi Sawa	The Piano Trick	white and black plastic strips are arranged on table and pressed, they make piano sound		1988	Sawa's Library of Magic — Volume One	164	Instruments
Amazing James Randi	Spirit Music	No. 67, accordion plays despite performer being tied up		1990	Self-Working Rope Magic	142	Mental Magic / Effects / Seance Stuff Illusions / Spirit Cabinet Instruments
Dr. Dan J. Alessini	InstruMental	prediction of a toy instrument and a thought-of tune		July 1992	Vibrations (Vol. 15 No. 1)	13	Mental Magic / Principles / Multiple Out Instruments Pen & Pencil / Nail Writer & Swami Mental Magic / Effects / Prediction / Standard Predictions (one or multiple items)
David Berglas	The Vanishing Piano	in a room full of people, piano vanishes while musician is playing	Related to Misdirection (Patrick Page, 2011)	2002	The Mind & Magic of David Berglas	75	Illusions / Vanish / Objects Instruments
Oliver Meech	Psychic Strumming	Name of selected song appears on a guitar pick held by the spectator		2009	The Plot Thickens	52	Mental Magic / Effects / Divination Instruments
Stephen Minch	The Music of Erich Zann	séance performance, metronome starts moving and violin and music box start playing under glass bowl	Also published here The Music of Erich Zann (Stephen Minch, 1979)	2009	The Book of Forgotten Secrets	89	Mental Magic / Effects / Seance Stuff Instruments Thread / Invisible Thread / Miscellaneous
Maurice Fogel, Nick Lewin	Fogel's Invisible Piano	comedy routine with an invisible piano and the gag prediction of a tune		2010	Miracles of my Friends II	69	Mental Magic / Effects / Gag MC & Compere Bits of Business Instruments
Patrick Page	Tambo Tambo	benson bowl with a tambourine, coins as final load		2011	Magic Page by Page	189	Spongeball / Benson Bowl Routines Instruments
Donny Orbit	A Picktastic Adventure	guitar pick travels into deck next to selection, marked coin placed in card case, guitar pick transposes with the coin, then card transposes with guitar pick		June 2019	Genii (Vol. 82 No. 6)	70	Coin / Effect Themes / Transposition / Coin and Other object Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / With Other Objects / Coin Cut & Variations Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / with Other Object Instruments
Jonathan Friedman	Some Picks Suck	guitar pick is visually changed into a straw		Aug. 2021	Genii (Vol. 84 No. 8)	62	Straw Instruments
Christoph Borer	Klarinamici	card sword using a clarinet		2022	A String of Pearls	74	Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Card Sword, Knife, ... Instruments
Steve Cohen	Cut and Restored Violin String	at an Anne-Sophie Mutter dinner		2022	Max Malini	192	Rope / Cut & Restored Articles / Anecdotes Instruments
Donny Orbit	Picking a Riff	broken and restored guitar pick	Also published here MAGIC, Mar. 2011	2022	Talk About Tricks (Issue 2)	1016	Instruments
Pedro Lacerda	09. Card in the Piano - A short Tale	card transposes with piano key		2023	The Finest Magic of Pedro Lacerda	255	Cards / Effect Themes / Transposition / with Other Object Articles / Anecdotes Instruments