Don Teach inquired about what a "Zilotone" was.  The Zilotone was made by
the Wolverine company, I think in the 1930's.  It is a metal toy, litho-
graphed, in the form of a clown hitting a xylophone.  The disc, along
with the underneath gearing, directed the clown sequentially to the
proper xylophone notes and thus a tune.

There were a total of nine tunes made for this.  They are rather popular.
We wrote an article on them for the MBS magazine some 20 years ago.  They
have gotten rather hard to find.

Martin Roenigk¶
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