I just found out that there is quite a not insignificant amount of variants of 'The Pass'. While I'm scouring the Internet for a suitable variant, does anyone know of any difficult or weird variants of The Pass?
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'The Pass': the weird and difficult variants
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Yes I do. Some good resources for pass variants are:
1. The Expert at the Card Table by S W Erdnase
2. Expert Card Technique by Jean Hugard & Frederick Braue
3. Magic Without Apparatus by Camille Gaultier
4. The Amateur Magician's Handbook by Henry Hay
5. Modern Magic by Professor Hoffman
6. Sleight of Hand by Edwin Sachs
I just found out that there is a one handed version of the pass. Erdnase one handed shift, I believe. Is that the only one handed version of the pass?
No. There are several. Of course there's the Charlier Pass, but in nineteenth-century books like Sachs' Sleight of Hand, Hoffman's Modern Magic or Robert-Houdin's Secrets of Conjuring and Magic you'll find several alternative one-hand shifts. If you go through old magazines like the Sphinx and Mahatma there are a few variations on those themes. Then moving into the twentieth century, the Neal Elias one-hand shift is published in The Vernon Chronicles Volume 1 as the Vernon One-Handed Shift, and there are a couple of ideas in Henry Hay's Amateur Magicians Handbook and Camille Gaultier's Magic Without Apparatus. Richard Turner, Kim West, Chad Nelson have one-hand shifts on their respective videos, as do Jo Sevau and Richard Hucko on their Subtle Concepts DVDs. And, to top it all off, I've got a few of my very own!
Good lord! That's a lot more one-handed stuff than I thought existed!
Looks like I have some research to do. Thank you for the I formation and putting me in the right direction.
Looks like I have some research to do. Thank you for the I formation and putting me in the right direction.