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[ta0]

A starter that imitates the way fingers start a finger top (but in this case they should be called feet tops!  )

[Jeremy McCreary]

I've been working more on starters than tops lately. Really like that starter's mechanics!

[the Earl of Whirl]

Very neat and very fun.  I have recently run across several mechanisms Don Olney was experimenting with to start tops.  None seemed too effective yet.  And certainly nothing as nice as this one!

[ta0]

Ortwin sent me another Pirouetto, which will be part of a future raffle prize.

Pirouetto is made in Frankfurt, Germany, by Neue Freunde (New Friends), a small design and manufacturing company founded by two guys, Carsten Rosenbohm and Christopher Fellehner (www.neue-freunde.org).
I wrote to them asking who had invented the toy and Carsten replied saying that it was his idea:

I made it for my son who was then only three and not able to spin a top. By the time Pirouetto was ready he was 5 and could spin the tops without my tool. :-))) We decided to make a small production anyway... I later found out that Pirouetto is quite a nice toy for people with disabilities, often elderly people that lost their fine motor skills ...

[jim in paris]

hi all ,salut Jorge ,
very cool item ! and great prize for the next raffle
 when Ortwin asked me for your address , I knew something was brewing ;-)
I want one !

cheers

jim

[the Earl of Whirl]

That seems like it would be a hit wherever it went.  Very nice!!!