Product Review

Few objects that magicians conjure with stir the imagination the way proper currency does. Money never goes out of style. Imagine being able to increase a dollar's value a hundred-fold. In the 1970s, a handful of American magicians encountered an Eastern European circus performer named Valdo, who stunned them all by doing just that! Valdo never published his revolutionary bill change, but variations quickly spread throughout the world of magic. Today it is a close-up standard, known as the 100 Bill Switch. SWITCH collects the best work on this subject from magicians around the world. In addition to a thorough description of the original handling, more than twenty variations are meticulously taught using hundreds of crystal-clear line drawings. Some variations use a thumb tip and others don't, some use fewer folds and one uses no folds at all! There are instantaneous and visual transformations, multiple switches, a one-handed change, palm-up handlings and more. In addition, SWITCH contains over 60 complete routines as well as sleights, subtleties, utility moves (such as bill productions and vanishes), a definitive history of the bill switch, performance theory, presentation ideas and several routines that don't even involve money. Plus, for the very first time, Valdo, the inventor of the 100 Bill Switch, emerges from the shadows to tell his own story in a revealing interview.