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Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
·
Professor Hoffmann
730
This
trick
may
be
performed
by
any
of
our
readers
without
having
the
slightest
introduction
to
the
beings
of
another
world.
He
has
only
to
procure
a
small
tube,
place
it
in
the
valve-hole
of
the
accordion,
breath
and
blow
into
it
alternately,
and
then
by
fingering
the
keys
he
will
be
able
to
produce
precisely
the
same
effect
as
our
friends
the
mediums.
In
order
to
touch
distant
persons,
or
to
make
such
things
as
guitars
and
tambourines
play
at
different
parts
of
the
room,
he
has
to
conceal
about
him,
or
have
hidden
in
some
recess
in
the
table
or
chair,
a
telescopic
rod,
extending
several
feet.
To
the
end
of
this
he
fixes
the
tambourine
or
guitar,
on
the
surface
of
which
has
been
placed
some
phosphorus,
and
by
waving
the
stick
he
makes
it
appear
as
if
persons
were
floating
over
the
heads
of
the
company.
The
invisible
hand
is
formed
by
a
glove
being
fastened
to
the
end
of
the
tube.
The
glove
is
inflated
or
blown
out
through
the
tube,
and
when
slapped
on
to
the
cheek
of
a
person
it
has
all
the
sensations
of
a
cold
hand
striking
the
face.
The
glove
covered
with
phosphorus
and
waved
about
is
the
mysterious
hand,
without
any
body,
which
caused
so
many
to
believe
that
a
spirit
was
present.
At
the
end
of
this
useful
tube
may
also
be
fixed
a
reed
trumpet
or
whistle,
and
by
blowing
through
the
tube
sound
can
be
evolved,
and
when
the
instrument
is
worked
about
in
different
directions
a
large
but
discordant
band
of
spiritual
musicians
appear,
to
the
materially
and
physically
benighted
listeners,
to
be
in
the
room.
To
play
the
guitar,
while
floating
in
the
air,
seems
a
more
difficult
problem,
but
the
reader
will
easily
see
how
this
is
achieved.
In
the
guitar
is
a
musical
box
with
a
small
piece
of
writing
paper
so
placed
as
to
touch
the
steel
or
vibrating
tongues
of
the
box,
and
this
closely
imitates
the
peculiar
twang
of
the
guitar.
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