@accordionnoir
Saw this book at the #Vancouver Public #Library and had to pick it up to realize the name of the author, Peter Lamont, laid out right under the subtitle, wasn’t the name of the mysterious Victorian psychic
Almost missed that it was about my favorite #accordion psychic #DanielDunglasHome 🪗
Probably not many would jump at his name today, but they almost missed a proselytizing reader here 👻
Book #design matters
https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/peter-lamont/the-first-psychic/9780349118253/
Good review of a book on the frustrating early spiritualist / huckster #DanielDunglasHome who famously had ghosts play #accordion at séances in the 1860s 👻🪗
Frustrating, because nobody seems to know how he did it
Some say he had a tiny #harmonica in his mouth 😬
But the accordion moved by itself and stuff. So annoying 🤨
I would love to see someone revive this act at our @accordionnoir festival 🔮
https://www.vanishingincmagic.com/magic-book-reviews/the-first-psychic/
@ursaborealis @seventeenmagpie
Long history of ghosts 👻 being roused to play squeezeboxes 🪗
The spiritualists had that as part of their table-rapping shtick back in the 1800s
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2021-10-27-dr-carmel-raz-on-seances-sperrits-and-ghostly-accordions/
(That’s an interview episode of @accordionnoir radio)
Most famously by #DanielDunglasHome and his under the table #accordion
👻🪗
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/the-ghost-accordion-of-daniel-douglas-home/
AccNoir 2021-10-27 You may not know it, but the Victoria period was rife with manifestations of unruly spirits, denied their eternal rest and driven to ensure that no one else enjoyed any — b…
@rorystarr
There has to be an #Accordion connection 🪗 👻 here right? 🥁
Curiously, almost long as they’ve existed, Accordions have been connected to the otherworldly through the #spiritualist movement by figures like #DanielDunglasHome who had the dead play accordion in #séances 🎺
@accordionnoir radio playlist 2021-10-27: Dr. #CarmelRaz on Seances, Sperrits, and Ghostly Accordions
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2021-10-27-dr-carmel-raz-on-seances-sperrits-and-ghostly-accordions/
AccNoir 2021-10-27 You may not know it, but the Victoria period was rife with manifestations of unruly spirits, denied their eternal rest and driven to ensure that no one else enjoyed any — b…
AccordionBruce