“Per essere felici bastano due carte: Una di credito e una d’imbarco”….
Oggi parliamo della “cosa” che è sicuramente più usata in Magia: la Doppia presa!
Il Double Lift è un gioco di prestigio con cui due carte vengono “sollevate” e mostrate come una singola carta. Si parla di Double Turnover se le carte vengono immediatamente rimesse nel mazzo.
Il “concetto” è stato descritto per la prima volta in The Merry Companion; o Delights for the Ingenious”, scritto da Richard Neve nel 1716. Il titolo era “To Seem to Change the Top Card of the pack to Another” (p. 141). Da allora molti Maghi hanno pubblicato tecniche per il Double Lift.
Arthur Finley è generalmente riconosciuto come il primo ad utilizzare un Double Turnover, in cui le carte vengono girate e immediatamente messe sul mazzo.
Di seguito vi posto le pubblicazioni che parlano del Double Lift, ma prima vi spiego un gioco…
Vi servono due carte dello stesso valore e colore e una carta di contrasto, supponiamo che siano: A cuori, 3 Fiori e A cuori esattamente in questa sequenza.
Esegui un Double Lift e mostra il 3 di fiori, rigiralo a faccia in basso sul mazzo e mettilo sul tavolo (A cuori) e coprilo con un bicchiere. Esegui un altro DOuble Lift e mostra l’Asso di cuori (con il 3 di fiori) e rigiralo a faccia in basso sul mazzo. Prendi la prima carta, l’Asso cuori ma in realtà sarà il 3 di fiori e ponilo in alto sul bicchiere. schiocca le dita e….mostra l’avvenuta trasposizione.
Non è una “grande Magia” ma è un effetto che piace, personalmente uso la tecnica di Dai Vernon per il rilascio della doppia e restare con la singola in mano. L’azione è la seguente: prendi la doppia e girala, mostra la faccia e rigirala di dorso. Ora devi “staccare” la doppia e tenere solo la singola, senza che si veda nulla. Il pollice sinistro trattiene la carta (sul lato sinistro del mazzo) e la destra fa “scattare” la doppia restando con solo la singola in mano. Se tutto è stato eseguito correttamente (e mi sono spiegato bene) lo spettatore non percepirà nessuna “mossa” sospetta nel nostro operare.
Il resto è solo presentazione!
PUSH-OFF
- The One Hand Push-Off: Jean Hugard and Fred Braue, Expert Card Technique (1940, pp. 9-11).The One Hand Push-Off Double Lift (Frederick Lowe): Hugard’s Magic Monthly, Vol. 6 No. 6 (November 1948, p. 484).
- The Double Lift (Second Method) (Cy Endfield): The Gen, Vol. 8 No. 8 (December 1952, pp. 241-242).Lewis Ganson, Cy Endfield’s Entertaining Card Magic III (1958, pp. 55-58).
- The Knock-Out Double Lift (Martin Nash): Stephen Minch, Ever So Sleightly (1975, pp. 17-27)
- The Natural Double Lift (Ken Krenzel): Harry Lorayne, The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel (1978, pp. 13-16).A Heavenly Turnover (Steve Draun): Richard Kaufman, Secrets Draun From Underground (1993, pp. 19-21).
- T. T. T. (Two-card Turnover Technique) (Ron Bauer): Genii, Vol. 46 No. 11 (November 1982, pp. 750-751).Ron Bauer, The Ron Bauer 2008 Lecture (2008, pp. 17-22).
- The DD Double Lift (Derek Dingle): Richard Kaufman, The Complete Works of Derek Dingle (1982, pp. 6-8).
- The Push-over Double: Roberto Giobbi, Card College, Vol. 3 (1998, pp. 573-574).
THE “VERNON” PUSH-OFF
- One Hand Double Turnover: Ed Marlo, Off the Top (1945, pp. 7-8).Two Card Throw: Ed Marlo, Marlo in Spades (1947, pp. 5-6).
- Push Off Lift (Dai Vernon): Lewis Ganson, Dai Vernon’s Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic (1967, p. 54).
VERNON’S SIMULATED PUSH-OFF
- The Double Lift (Dai Vernon): George Starke, ed., Stars of Magic, Series 5 No. 2 (1949, pp. 3-4).Lewis Ganson, The Dai Vernon Book of Magic (1957, pp. 119-122).
George Starke, ed., Stars of Magic (1961, pp. 78-79).
The Finley-Vernon Double Turnover: Ron Bauer, The Mechanical Deck (Ron Bauer Private Studies Series, No. 11) (1999, pp. 19-30).
STRIKE/HIT LIFT
- The Flip-Over Double-Lift: Paul Le Paul, The Card Magic of Le Paul (1949, pp. 69-71).
- Instantaneous Double Lift (Dr. Jacob Daley): George Starke, ed., Stars of Magic, Vol. 7 No. 2 (1950, pp. 2-3).George Starke, ed., Stars of Magic (1961, pp. 108-109).
Daley Strike Double (Daryl Martinez): Stephen Minch, Secrets of a Puerto Rican Gambler (1980, pp. 48-49).Stephen Minch, Daryl’s Ambitious Card Omnibus (1987, pp. 5-7). - Hit Double Lift: Ed Marlo, The Cardician (1953, pp. 52-53).Crackling Turnover: Jon Racherbaumer, Card Finesse (1982, pp. 61-62).
- Instant Double and Triple Turnover Technique (Brother John Hamman): Richard Kaufman, The Secrets of Brother John Hamman (1989, pp. 11-14).
LEIPZIG DOUBLE LIFT
- Leipzig Double Lift (Nate Leipzig): George Starke, ed., Stars of Magic, Series 10 (1952, p. 3).Hugard’s Magic Monthly, Vol. 11 No. 5 (October 1953, p. 52).
George Starke, ed., Stars of Magic (1961, p. 143).
Lewis Ganson, Dai Vernon’s Tribute to Nate Leipzig (1963, pp. 29-30).
Modified Leipzig Snap (Joseph K. Schmidt): Genii, Vol. 72 No. 9 (September 2009, p. 22).
STUART GORDON TURNOVER
- Pivot Turnover: Ken Simmons, Riffling the Pasteboards (1986, pp. 8-9).Ken Simmons, Guarded Secrets Revealed (1988).
- Gordon Double Lift (Stuart Gordon): Mike Maxwell, Larry Jennings’ The Cardwright (1988, pp. 114-115).Darwin Ortiz, Cardshark (1995, pp. 105-106).
Richard Kaufman, Jennings ’67 (1997, pp. 186-187).
Genii, Vol. 67 No. 5 (May 2004, pp. 61-62).
A Stuart Gordon Turnover Variation: Wesley James, Enchantments (2004, pp. 164-166).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
OTHER TECHNIQUES
- The Double Lift: Jean Hugard, Card Manipulations No. 2 (1933, p. 22).
- The Double Lift: Ralph W. Hull, More Eye-Openers (1933, p. 3).
- A Double Lift: Frank Lane, Two Hours With Frank Lane (1933, p. 7).
- Double Card Lift (Tommy Tucker): Charles Eastman, Expert Manipulative Magic (1933, p. 12).
- The Perfect Double Card Lift: Ralph W. Hull and Nelson C. Hahne, Modernism in Pasteboard (1934, p.
.Double Lift (Ralph W. Hull and Trevor H. Hall): Trevor H. Hall, The Testament of Ralph W. Hull (1945, pp. 19-21).
- The Double Card Turn-Over: Victor Farelli, Lend Me Your Pack (1935, pp. 45-48).The Double Card Turn-Over and “Lift” (Victor Farelli): The Sphinx, Vol. 37 No. 10, (December 1938, pp. 247-248).
- Double Lift (P. W. Millar): The Tops, Vol. 1 No. 8, (August 1936, p. 28).
- Double Lift Used in Passing, Tommy Tucker, What Next! (1936, p. 26; 1975, pp. 18-19).
- The Double Lift: Tommy Tucker, What Next! (1936, p. 31; 1975, p. 22).
- The Snap Double Lift (Will De Seive): William H. Wilson, These Card Tricks (1936).
- The Double Lift: Jean Hugard, The Encyclopedia of Card Tricks (1937, p. 382).
- The E. V. Invisible Double Lift (Edward Victor): Edward Victor, The Magic of the Hands (1937, pp. 4-6).
- The Multiple Lift: Lynn Searles, The Card Expert (1938, pp. 31-33).
- The Carlyle Snap Double Lift (Francis X. Carlyle): Jean Hugard, More Card Manipulations No. 2 (1939, pp. 8-9).
- The Jamison Double Lift (R. M. Jamison): Jean Hugard, More Card Manipulations No. 2 (1939, pp. 10-11).
- The Double Lift: Jean Hugard, Modern Magic Manual (1939, p. 318).
- The Double Lift: Jean Hugard and Fred Braue, Expert Card Technique (1940, p. 3).
- The Triple and Quadruple Lifts: Jean Hugard and Fred Braue, Expert Card Technique (1940, pp. 3-4).
- The Lift (Jack McMillen, uncredited): Jean Hugard and Fred Braue, Expert Card Technique (1940, pp. 5-6).
- The Double Lift in Action: Jean Hugard and Fred Braue, Expert Card Technique (1940, pp. 6-7).
- The Triple and Quadruple Lifts in Action: Jean Hugard and Fred Braue, Expert Card Technique (1940, p. 7).
- The Double Lift Turnover (Method A): Jean Hugard and Fred Braue, Expert Card Technique (1940, p.
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- The Double Lift Turnover (Method B): Jean Hugard and Fred Braue, Expert Card Technique (1940, p. 9).Domico Snap Over Double Lift (Carmen D’Amico): Arthur Buckley, Card Control (1946, pp. 15-16).
The Snap-Over Double-Lift: Paul Le Paul, The Card Magic of Le Paul (1949, pp. 73-75).Paul Le Paul, The Card Magic of Bro. John Hamman S.M. (1958, p. 28). - Two as One (Frank Herman): Genii, Vol. 7 No. 2 (October 1942, p. 41).
- The Double Lift: Henry Hay, Learn Magic (1942, p. 206).
- “The Flip” Double Lift (Edouard Cartier): Hugard’s Magic Monthly, Vol. 2 No. 11 (April 1945, pp. 113, 116).
- Double-Lift (Clayton Rawson): The Phoenix, No. 100 (Feb. 1, 1946, pp. 404-405).
- Reverse English on the Double Lift: Hugard’s Magic Monthly, Vol. 3 No. 9 (February 1946, p. 194).
- Prelude to Duo Coincidence (Peter Warlock): Pentagram, Vol. 1 No. 2, (November 1946, p. 9).
- The Double Lift: Paul Clive, Card Tricks Without Skill (1946, p. 9; 1973, pp. 18-19).
- Lifting Two Cards As One: Trevor H. Hall, Nothing Is Impossible (1946, pp. 20-21).
- The Double Lift: Wilfrid Jonson, But Not to Play (1946, p. 24).
- The Double Turnover: Wilfrid Jonson, But Not to Play (1946, pp. 24-25).
- Double Lift (Frederick Leigh): Demon Telegraph, No. 91 (January 1947, p. 5).
- Double Lift Plus (Stanley Collins): Pentagram, Vol. 1 No. 6 (March 1947, p. 36).
- The Max Katz Double-Lift (Max Katz): Hugard’s Magic Monthly, Vol. 5 No. 2, (July 1947, p. 335).
- Just A Second (John M. Zlogar): The Linking Ring, Vol. 27 No. 6 (August 1947, pp. 54-55).
- The Esscee Double Lift (Stanley Collins): Stanley Collins, A Conjuring Melange (1947, pp. 94-97).
- Thumbing a Lift: Sid Fleischman and Robert J. Gunther, Top Secrets (1947, pp. 6-7).
- Gusias’ Fancy Lift (Bill Gusias): Ed Marlo, Marlo in Spades (1947, pp. 4-5).
- The “S” Shaped Turnover (Ed Marlo): Ed Marlo, Marlo in Spades (1947, pp. 6-7).
- The Braue Double Lift (Fred Braue): Jean Hugard and Fred Braue’s Show Stoppers with Cards (1948, pp. 1-3).
- The Double Lift: Dariel Fitzkee, The Card Expert Entertains (1948, pp. 101-102).
- The Double Lift: Lewis Ganson, How Right You Are (1948, p. 6).
- The Double Lift and Turnover: Jean Hugard and Frederick Braue, The Royal Road to Card Magic (1948, pp. 141-143).
- The Double Lift (Five Methods): Anthony Norman, Basic Card Technique (1948, pp. 103-109).Anthony Norman, Basic Card Technique (1968, pp. 30-31).
- Pittman One-Hand Double Lift (George Pittman): The Sphinx, Vol. 48 No. 2 (April 1949, p. 35).
- The Double Lift (Rezvani): Maurice Sardina and Dariel Fitzkee, tr., The Magic of Rezvani (1949, p. 24).
- Double Lift: Henry Hay, Cyclopedia of Magic (1949, pp. 56-57).
- The Triple Lift (Ned Rutledge): The Linking Ring, Vol. 30 No. 4 (June 1950, pp. 48-51).
- The Double Lift: Henry Hay, The Amateur Magician’s Handbook (1950, p. 65).
- A Double Lift Variation (Tom Sellers): The Gen, Vol. 7 No. 4 (August 1951, p. 105).
- The “Flick” Double Lift (Will Prothero): The Wizard, Vol. 5 No. 51 (September 1951, pp. 79-80).Koynini’s “Flick” Double Lift (Toni Koynini): The Wizard, Vol. 5 No. 51 (September 1951, p. 80).