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'''Tarbell Rope Trick''' is a routine created by [[Harlan Tarbell]] around 1920, which popularized the [[Cut and Restored Rope]] effect. [[File:TarbellRopeMystery.jpg|thumb|Ad [[Sphinx]] December 1926]] | '''Tarbell Rope Trick''' is a routine created by [[Harlan Tarbell]] around 1920, which popularized the [[Cut and Restored Rope]] effect. [[File:TarbellRopeMystery.jpg|thumb|Ad in [[Sphinx]] December 1926]] | ||
Effect: The performer exhibits three separate pieces of rope, each about a yard long, and ties them together with knots. He proceeds to rub the knots into nothingness between his fingers and finally shows that the three pieces have become a single, uncut, rope. | Effect: The performer exhibits three separate pieces of rope, each about a yard long, and ties them together with knots. He proceeds to rub the knots into nothingness between his fingers and finally shows that the three pieces have become a single, uncut, rope. | ||
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== Publications == | == Publications == | ||
* TARBELL'S ROPE MYSTERY, marketed effect (1926) | * TARBELL'S ROPE MYSTERY, marketed effect ([[1926]]) | ||
* "The Tarbell Rope Mystery" [[Tarbell Course in Magic]] (Lesson 50) (1928) | * "The Tarbell Rope Mystery" [[Tarbell Course in Magic]] (Lesson 50) (1928) | ||
* Lesson 66 TARBELL HINDU ROPE MYSTERIES, Tarbell Course in Magic, Volume 5 (1948) | * Lesson 66 TARBELL HINDU ROPE MYSTERIES, Tarbell Course in Magic, Volume 5 (1948) | ||
[[Category:Illusions]] | [[Category:Illusions]] | ||
Latest revision as of 11:16, 15 April 2012
Tarbell Rope Trick is a routine created by Harlan Tarbell around 1920, which popularized the Cut and Restored Rope effect.
Ad in Sphinx December 1926
Effect: The performer exhibits three separate pieces of rope, each about a yard long, and ties them together with knots. He proceeds to rub the knots into nothingness between his fingers and finally shows that the three pieces have become a single, uncut, rope.
Tarbell used a gimmick which he called the "Caesar Gimmick", which later became known as the "Tarbell Gimmick".
Publications
- TARBELL'S ROPE MYSTERY, marketed effect (1926)
- "The Tarbell Rope Mystery" Tarbell Course in Magic (Lesson 50) (1928)
- Lesson 66 TARBELL HINDU ROPE MYSTERIES, Tarbell Course in Magic, Volume 5 (1948)