Hello -- The messages about musical toys are interesting.  I have
both a Tomy Tuneyville player piano and Choo-Choo train.  They have
been written up in the Music Box Journal for their uniqueness.

I just won a Marx Toon Tooter railroad on eBay but haven't received it
yet.  Xylophone bars are struck as the locomotive goes around.  Child
Guidance's Musical Railroad works the same way. I lost that auction.

Beatrice Farmer's comments about Mattel prompt me to include a photo
of my Calliope Music Box made by that company.  The date on it is 1952.
The clown's body is a smock over a wobbly spring and, as the wheels are
mounted off-center, he bobs this way and that, simulating playing the
keyboard.

The 62-year-old rubber music belt still plucks thin wires as the toy is
pulled, but the "tune" is unrecognizable.

Tom Sendall

 [ Mattel Calliope Music Box Pull Toy
 [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Attachments/14/03/02/140302_151645_CALLIOPE%20MUSIC%20BOX%20002.JPG