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Norm Nielsen: The Floating Fiddle

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Today is the birthday of magician Norm Nielsen (b. 1934). In the clip below, after some typical close magic with cards and coins, he builds to his best known trick, the Levitating Violin, which was invented and devised by himself:

To find out more about the variety arts past and present, consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and wherever nutty books are sold.

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And don’t miss my new book: Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, just released by Bear Manor Media, also available from amazon.com etc etc etc

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This entry was posted on February 17, 2013 at 12:00 pm and is filed under Contemporary Variety, Magicians/ Mind Readers/ Quick Change, Television, TV variety with tags , , . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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