Pouring a number of completely different drinks from one container is a feat of magic known to be a number of hundred years old. The primary description of the effect tells about utilizing a beer keg having a number of compartments every linked with the one spigot in order that, in turn, one after another of the drinks may very well be drawn by the magician. Later a bottle was used as an alternative of a beer keg and the mechanism was made far more easy to operate. There were several air vents which could be coated or opened by the fingers of the hand during which the magician held the bottle, very much in the best way a musician plays a flute. This bottle trick was a feature within the packages of John Henry Anderson and Signor Blitz, as well as Alexander Herrmann and Harry Kellar. In fact most of the main magicians of the previous century and the early part of this one had the trick in their shows. I had always favored the idea of the trick and subsequently primarily based my total act upon the idea, but with an entirely totally different set of principles and really giving the viewers a genuine selection of any drink they wished. Within the time of Anderson, he appeared to offer the same alternative but a hundred years ago there were few combined drinks and there have been however a restricted number of any variety for which a gentleman would ask.
Another change I made within the act was to announce that I'd produce the chosen drinks if the various spectators every would “Assume-a-Drink.” Consistent with this think a drink concept, I modernized and perfected another old effect which I used in my act during a time once I wished to make the act longer. The effect is that of drawing an image on a paper and then producing the actual article from the drawing. Footage of rabbits and women have been drawn on sheets of paper and the reside rabbit or the residing lady produced from the drawing. There was even an old impact of drawing a beer keg upon a chunk of paper and drawing beer from the keg. That is the idea so far as thought goes of the impact I am about to describe. It has been modernized and elaborated as with the rest of my act. I know the effect upon the viewers and the practicability of the apparatus.
Naturally I introduced it in line with the “Think-a-Drink” patter but different magicians will find it simply as effective using patter fitting in with their own shows. I suggested that some people had issue pondering of something until they visualized it. I saw there was such a person in my viewers and asked for paper and crayon. My assistant instantly introduced ahead a drawing board upon which there was a chunk of drawing paper thumb tacked to the board on the four corners. I took the board and spun it around to indicate each back and front and handed it again to the assistant. She held it up towards her chest and I took the crayon and started in to draw a picture. It was quickly obvious that the image was that of a beer keg. I then took an strange beer spigot and pushed it into the pinnacle of the picture of the keg. Then one after one other I stuffed 4 beer glasses by turning on the spigot. When the fourth glass was about half full, I pretended to listen to the question, “What about milk?”
“It's simply as easy to visualise milk as beer,” So saying I jerked the spigot from the picture and took the board from the lady and gave it 1 / 4 turn. With a number of strokes of the crayon the beer keg was remodeled into a cow-a cartoonist’s thought of a cow-however a cow. I instantly started in to exploit that cow and the milk went into the glass with the identical sturdy, but intermittent, streams that it comes from the more genuine variety. The key of the trick is the development of the board. It seems to be like an unusual drawing board of medium size. Truly the board is barely a shell of very skinny veneer. Inside this hollow board is a tank fabricated from copper which has been chromium plated to make it simpler to clean. The tank is roughly ten by sixteen inches by one inch in thickness. Such a measurement tank can have the capacity to fill four beer glasses. At the high of the drawing board is a small thumb screw which will open the air vent in the tank, and which will be opened by the girl who holds the board throughout the trick. At the backside of the tank is a valve held shut usually by a spring. When the spigot is pressed in opposition to that valve, it is opened. The valve diameter is strictly the same as that of the top of the spigot. Will probably be seen essential that there be no fumbling when the magician pushes the spigot into the “beer keg” and into the valve hole. To be able to discover this hole instantly, the spot beforehand has been marked on the paper. As a matter of truth the entire picture of the barrel and the additional lines turning the barrel into a cow have been drawn on the paper with a high quality pencil. The only other point to know about the beer compartment is that it's stuffed by means of the air vent by utilizing a funnel.
The milk is held in a rubber tube with a bulbous end, which is put out by medical provide houses. It's product of quite light rubber. This rubber tube is mounted to one side of the beer tank, and in simply the place that the bulb end will come at that spot in the cartoon of the cow where the udder has been drawn. There's a vent on the top of this tube akin to for the beer tank and the milk is poured into the tube in that way. The tip of the bulb has a small hole minimize in it-large enough to permit the milk to be compelled out however too small for the milk to run out. When the tube is being crammed the bulb is squeezed shut and because the milk runs into the tube, the strain on the bulb is released. This fills the bulb with milk. When the magician involves the milking effect, he takes maintain of this bulb and by squeezing it, he will squirt the milk out in a stream. Repeating this a number of instances will give an exact copy of milking a real cow.
It must be identified that both on the hole for the spigot and on the udder of the cow, the paper has been lower with a razor blade earlier than the performance. At the spigot gap, a cross is reduce and the udder is printed by the razor simply inside the pencil line which is to be traced with the crayon. The first cut permits the spigot to go in simply without having to put on enough strain to burst the paper. The second cut permits the bulbous end of the rubber to be taken within the hand as if it were the teat of the cow.
The trick is a comedy item and as such might be found very amusing; however it's also a superb trick as a result of it does not seem doable to have a lot liquid hidden anywhere. The drawing board seems to be so truthful and the five glasses of liquid look so much greater than they're actually. It additionally provides immensely to the trick having the change in liquid not solely because of the tricky change in the drawing in making a cow out of a barrel, however as a result of beer is so solely totally different from milk.
I sincerely hope that you'll just like the trick as it's, however even when it won't slot in your show, I hope that it's going to lead you to consider methods to modernize and elaborate some tricks which you have at all times needed to do however felt have been fairly dated. Outdated concepts and modern strategies make a beautiful combination.
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