>[ Sam, did you ever play the Musical Coins on a marble surface?
>[ That's fun, too !  -- Robbie

Is this a joke?  If not I would be interested in knowing how it works.
I think I could figure it out.  Have you played them?

Sam Harris

 [ The coins are hard silver discs with 10 to 16 short radial points,
 [ like a sheriff's badge gone crazy!  The coin is held not-quite
 [ level and dropped onto the marble surface with a slight spin.  I
 [ accompanied Renee Hall's vaudeville act years ago, which featured
 [ the coins.  (She was the wife of jazz trombonist Wilbur Hall, and
 [ performed in English Music Hall in Britain in the twenties, backed
 [ by two pint-sized banjo players!  What a great lady she was.)
 [ -- Robbie