Fisher Price Classic Pull A Tune Xylophone

The string keeping the baton together is just not long enough for little hands. I assume it’s a safety measure to avoid strangulation but very hard to play with the length.

I purchased the xylophone when my son was 4 months and he loved then even though he wanted to eat it! Lol but now he is 7 months and loves it! It’s sturdy to take the banging/hitting of a baby/toddler and reminds you of the old classic xylophone

This base is plastic, not the wooden one I had expected.

Always a great toy

First and most annoying is the string. There is a fine line between safety and stupid, they crossed over to stupid... Way too short.Second, The 'original' pull toy of 20-30 years ago only played three notes when being pulled, but a) the tune worked no matter which way the toy was traveling, b) it introduced the neat engineering effect of lever action arms to make the sounds (at least I thought it was neat) c) and the ENTIRE tune is played in 1.5 feet of travel so when the tot gets into passing gear all you hear is one quick BRANG BRANG BRANG as they go across the floor.Three, one of the teaching features for the original toy was the colors of the rainbow. Unfortunately the rainbow in this version includes an extra aguamarine color stuck in the middle... Should have put it at the end! Stick with ROYGBIV folks!Four, the rivets holding the striking plates down. again you pass that safety -vs- stupidity line, the hammer has to be able to reach the plates to be able to make the sounds and the plates have to move freely in order to sound properly.Five, the original had a color coded music sheet with it. 8 to 10 songs easily played by any age that can recognize colors. But now??? You get no song sheets because aparently there is so little quality assurance that the notes are not even always the same color! (The picture on the box is different from the shipped toy and a message warns that 'colors may vary')

A real throw back to an earlier time. I bought the Fisher Price Xylophone for my son completely based on my own nostalgia for the product. It is almost exactly as I remember. It has a little more plastic and no wood. However, it is still the same fun toy and great introduction to sound and music that I remember from my childhood.

This toy is awesome! I especially loved the retro packaging. I remembered having this toy as a child, and when I searched before Christmas it was the only xylophone on the market that made its own noise just from dragging it on the ground. That was really important to me since my nephew is learning to crawl and walk! He loves making musical sounds on the xylophone, and it doesn't drive adults crazy as other noisy toys do. I'm really pleased with this purchase.

After reading a bunch of the reviews, we figured we could add a longer string if it was really that bad-- we thought that as long as the thing played a tune when it was pulled along it would be fine. Unfortunately, it DOES NOT PLAY A TUNE WHEN IT ROLLS-- ignore the "pull-a-tune" tagline. Interestingly enough, if you flip it over, there's a bulge in the plastic at the middle of the rear axle, where you would expect a little gearbox flywheel to be that would springload the hammer to play a tune when it is rolled-- so it looks like the device was form factor built to accommodate that mechanism. But as an engineer I wanted to see if the mechanism was actually there and might have been broken or just slipped out of place, so I removed the four screws around the real axle and opened it up to look inside-- NOTHING INSIDE. This product is terribly misadvertised, and the tagline especially is very misleading. THIS TOY IS A TREMENDOUS DISAPPOINTMENT.Also, you wouldn't think they could get the tune of the bars so wrong, but that's screwed up too. The notes are tuned out of order-- meaning larger bars have higher notes than the smaller bars that are supposed to be the high notes-- you can't even play a simple tune like row row row your boat or twinkle twinkle little star without it sounding stupidly bad. I think we might have kept the toy if the notes were marginally close, but this is not even a viable instrument.And... as everyone else has said, the string is stupidly-short-- about 9 inches long. The mallet is actually longer than the string, so you can't sit broadside perpendicular to the toy and use the mallet as any normal child would. You'd have to cut the mallet free to allow a child to actually use the instrument.Overall, this toy is useless-- don't try and convince yourself otherwise-- we read a bunch of these reviews and still bought it; that was a mistake. A major disappointment for my daughter's birthday. Sending back straightaway.