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I don't even know if this is allowed, but I figured I'd give it a shot. Would anyone with an authoratative or comedical voice be able to record a reading of the script? I would use mine but I don't it wouldn't worka t shows if I said I had just bought a new trick.

Why would you want to do your own recording if you have it already?

HNe has the same problem as I do.... We both have all of the required materials for the effect excluding the CD. He just doesn't want to purchase everything again to get the CD.

Wasn't the original effect supplied complete with a cassette tape and the later ones complete with a CD?

Edit 10 minutes later:

Thought so, check out Zack's Review from February 2006 at http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic8774.php in particular

Zack wrote:You open the shipping box and remove a CD. With any CD player, you put the CD in and start the lesson

Yes, but we both bought our gimmicks seperately... as the Devil's Napkin.

So you haven't bought Vanishing Bandana at all?

No, he has not... Just the napkin and he doesn't want to buy another one just to get the CD.

You must all have seen this coming along way off. If he, you, or anyone else wants the Vanishing Bandana script, they ought to buy Vanishing Bandana, not just copy the idea. If you don't like the voice on the official CD, or want to vary the wording, then by all means re-record it but buy the original first - it's the moral and correct way to do it.

My thoughts exactly as well.

Mandrake wrote:....it's the moral and correct way to do it.

Actually, it's immoral to perform the trick at all:
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~roy/magictalk ... ndana.html

That is what I am saying. I don't like the voice on the original, so I would like someone to re-record it. It's not that big of a deal.

If you have the original then how about asking at local colleges and schools, where there may be drama or acting courses - there are bound to be one or two students with good voices who will record it for a reasonable fee.

saxmad wrote:

Mandrake wrote:....it's the moral and correct way to do it.

Actually, it's immoral to perform the trick at all:
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~roy/magictalk ... ndana.html

As far as im concerned, ive bought the routine, and I enjoy performing it, so I wont be cutting it out due to a dispute. As far as im aware, when I bought the effect from my dealer, I bought peformance rights.

Good idea Mandrake. I'll check that out, there are a few around where I live.

It's nonsense to say that it is immoral to perform this trick because so-and-so created it.

The banana trick was OLD in the 1940s, based on a vaudeville routine.

Yes, in my Showtime column in the Linking Ring magazine of a few years ago, I point that out; in fact, in the "banana" column, I point out that, within the same year, two performers on the old Ed Sullivan TV show did it.

The trick can be done in about a half-dozen different ways so, to suggest that it is the brainchild of anyone (at least, anyone still living) is silly!