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Piatt Part 5

Ray: I did a couple of things with those pads. The spectator-I call them the S/S — sitter or spectator–should be able to handle them like they were their own. When you can’t hand somebody on stage a prop, you’re doing nothing. What you’re trying to do is create a thought in your audience’s mind. You don’t what them to say, “How did he do that?” because then you’re a magician. You want them to say, “How did he know that?” Becaus...
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Piatt Part 6

Caper Case Book I – (Click the name of the product to visit the product page) From Ray Piatt…Volume I contains the original handling for Caper-Case plus five additional effects and additional ideas. $22.50 Ray: Yeah, some weird stuff – but–they made sense to him. SM: (Laughing) Ray: There was no rhyme or reason to it! He would do things with stuffed birds and have them in a cage. I forget what he actua...
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Piatt Part 7

One On One Mentalism (Book) – (Click the name of the product to visit the product page) Another gem from C. L. Boarde, brought to us through our good friend Paul Alberstat. This soft cover book provides page after page of excellent material, effects, routines, ideas and details that are solid to any performing mentalist (or someone interested in learning more about mentalism). After an absence of many years, Boarded ...
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Piatt Part 8

SM: That’s an interesting story. Ray: I have Ed on tape talking. I used to take a cassette recorder with me and I have a bunch of tapes on him. He never got credited for his brains or the stuff he made. SM: I remember all those wonderful drawings. Ray: He did a great drawing of me. It’s a picture of me and at the bottom it says: To Entertaining Piatt. I sent it to Mark Stevens. I would like to see Ed mentioned i...
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Piatt Part 9

SM: Do you then have knowledge of magical props so that you steer clear of what has been done? Ray: No. SM: It’s very hard for me to understand how you do this- Ray: I’m addicted. SM: That I believe. But if I was going to invent a new card trick I would have to go all the way back to some tome in the 17th century where four aces are placed thusly into the center of the deck proper and are by magick, risen to the top forthwith. ...
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