Daughter loves it works great just gets a little loud at the high and low end just make sure they play with it away from ears

My daughter loved this for the month that it was working.

I have a 2 1/2 year old Grand daughter named Gracie Rose

Daughter loves it works great just gets a little loud at the high and low end just make sure they play with it away from ears

I am excited for my daughter to get the hang of using this

It is an allegorical myth of Germany and, in a way, the world between the 1930’s and 1950’s

This drum has good sound and is just the right size for my 2 1/2 year old

It sounds very good and is just the right size for little kids hands and fingers

The size is perfect to put the strap over the head and walk about playing the drum.

It's the perfect size for her to hold, she loves the sound, and if she gets bored with it

Each size does have a different tone, of course, but the quality of the sound is strange - between pitches if you’re going by an equal-tempered keyboard - and doesn’t reverb very well.

I suppose one could enjoy it on the surface for the dark fairy-tale qualities, but that misses the novels bigger point: rationalism taken to an extreme becomes irrational, the novel is a satire of rationalism and ultimately an atonement for German politics and culture that lead to WWII.

They are very well made and the sound quality is impeccable

Typically, I'm skeptical of anything made by Schylling, but this piano horn has great sound quality and a good price to match.

Great quality and a very good "instrumental" quality for a toy

Good product except the kids have ended up causing some of the letters to come off the handles.

Overall, good product and would recommend to any baby out there who likes to dance to the beat.

This is a good product with an easily affordable price.

Good Product, but ad is very very unclear - shows 6 and you get one - pretty misleading!

Quite a good product, but the strap fell off quite easily.

It should be treated as a fragile musical instrument not just a toy to be left on the floor and stepped on.

It is an allegorical myth of Germany and, in a way, the world between the 1930’s and 1950’s

This is a great instrument to help introduce music into a child's life.

I find that xylophones are a great first instrument for kids.

this is a great toy and instrument and a delightful change from the avg

Looking at the wood-colored plastic handles (and feeling them) makes the bells appear unnecessarily cheap

I liked the bells for the price and found them to be fun

One bell had the ball missing/haven fallen off in the box when it arrived

These bells are great to keep parents involved with their children.

My only complain is the bell on the bottom keeps falling

It is not a cheap toy, but, if you are looking for a professional-grade harmonica for serious use, this one isn't it.

It's a great toy to help kids learn about music and to just have fun!

Great toy for the price and entertaining for young and old!

It should be treated as a fragile musical instrument not just a toy to be left on the floor and stepped on.

It is a very nice quality and real accordion, not just some cheap kids plastic toy.

My dad played the real thing growing up and this little accordion is very impressive to me

They were put together wrong with the C and D bells having the exact same numbered bell; obviously a mistake which needs to be corrected!

This adorable little accordion is just right for budding young musicians, or those who are curious about how things work.

A great little accordion for little ones who love to make music.

I half expected a kazoo on steroids but this is an actual little accordion dosn't sound to bad for a kids toy

the kids are loving this, but the end piece comes off very easily

The only thing is that these colored balls inside it, not sure what is the purpose, but the kids always want to rip it a part to get the balls out

I think very young kids would have trouble doing anything but making noise with it.

drum is a kids drum, cute and all, but came with a dent

My kids still love playing with this months after I bought it.

However this drum is so cute, and so loved, we bought our daughter a new one.

All most all my toddlers want to destroy the drum to get the ball out

The Drum is extremely confusing and not very interesting.

Or is the drum itself Germany, damaged and repaired (or replaced) throughout history?

I just bought this drum for my 3 year olds birthday, and he LOVES it

For instance, Oskar's mother dies from eating to much fish, the owner of the Onion cellar dies from a bunch of pigeons attacking his car, and his father dies from swallowing a pin

In any case, it's for our 9 y/o grandson who loves to make noise

The Onion Cellar is as flippant an interpretation of "German guilt" as I've ever read; yet it rings true, for that time as well as now.

As in all coming-of-age novels, this youthful narrator has issues with his parents

Told from the perspective of Oskar Matzerath - an unreliable narrator because he is a traumatized patient in a mental institution - the story follows the strange life of a sophisticated three-year-old boy who refuses to grow up and fulfill his destiny as a grocer

However, I cannot claim Oskar as "the ultimate unreliable narrator" is an unartful dodge on Grass' part, as I suspect it is for some other authors reluctant to make a literary choice, or who simply desire to appear deep by prodding the reading audience to discover depth for him/her.

In any case, it's for our 9 y/o grandson who loves to make noise

Like Nietzsche, Oskar would rather be a Superman than follow the Herd, but he finally realizes that anarchy and individualism only lead to self-indulgence.

The banging of the drum does not appear to have much value, until later in life when Oskar develops skill as a jazz drummer.

You dont get the feeling that OSKAR is crazy here, so much as he's a microcosm of Germany's pre-war "high" culture

Oskar Matzerath is that anger, loosed on a world that so richly deserves him.

Young Oskar seeks comfort wherever he can find it, such as under his grandmother's layers of heavy skirts, until he finds a way to hold onto his youth in a tin drum he receives for his birthday

This was pooly made from flimsy material that will not hold up to the power of a 3 yr old toddler.

We still use it just fine, but it is pretty flimsy material to dent that easilty

The Onion Cellar is as flippant an interpretation of "German guilt" as I've ever read; yet it rings true, for that time as well as now.

The Onion Cellar is as flippant an interpretation of "German guilt" as I've ever read; yet it rings true, for that time as well as now.

The hard plastic material seems sturdy enough although if it was dropped on a hard surface floor it would surely crack or break.

Born in the 20s, he is an early developer, intellectually mature at birth, and quickly able to decide that his `father' is not his real father, and that he dislikes his petit bourgeois milieu so strongly that he stops growing by an act of willpower at the age of 3

the societies?Oskar's struggle against shame and guilt becomes even more pronounced when his father dies after Oskar throws him back his Nazis party pin and that led to his death by Russian machine gun fire

But the father is not a monster and has some redeeming virtues.

He is there at their victory parades and gruesome defeats, when the Russians occupy Danzig and kill his alleged father Matzerath and when an errant bomb takes the life of his sweatheart, Rosarita

The Onion Cellar is as flippant an interpretation of "German guilt" as I've ever read; yet it rings true, for that time as well as now.

In any case, it's for our 9 y/o grandson who loves to make noise

its amazing how the author combines a really strange character and plot and throws is loads of sarcastic humor.

As I read the book, I wondered how many times I missed compelling humor because it didn't translate well into English

The satirical humor is usually savage and quick to kill its object.

Moreover, the story is so intense, so moving, in a sense so miraculous, the reader wants to believe it, even knowing that it comes from a delusional man who describes physically impossible events

The whole book is sustained by the central character of Oskar, a wicked, depressed, desperate man seeing how his world crumbles apart and he has to build a life for himslef

Oskar is one of the grand creations of modern literature: a mentally disturbed man whose story can't be trusted, but who clearly suffered through tragic events that would drive anyone mad, and who arrived at a more insightful understanding of life than most "sane" people will ever know

The Onion Cellar is as flippant an interpretation of "German guilt" as I've ever read; yet it rings true, for that time as well as now.

Oskar is one of the grand creations of modern literature: a mentally disturbed man whose story can't be trusted, but who clearly suffered through tragic events that would drive anyone mad, and who arrived at a more insightful understanding of life than most "sane" people will ever know

He claims to be a self-imposed dwarf that can choose to grow again, and also claims to do so midway into the story, only to halt his vertical progress once more by his sheer will alone.

The Onion Cellar is as flippant an interpretation of "German guilt" as I've ever read; yet it rings true, for that time as well as now.

Its only AFTER the end of WWII, when Oskay desides to grow again, just as he decided at age 3 to STOP, that you get the ugly, deformed dwarf.

In the first 100 pages, I kept wondering why Mr. Grass had chosen to write the novel in the form of an autobiography of an insane dwarf pretending to have a mental age of 3 who had been convicted of a murder he did not commit.

The Onion Cellar is as flippant an interpretation of "German guilt" as I've ever read; yet it rings true, for that time as well as now.

I took this to a band party and the bell actually comes off making a perfect shot glass

It is an allegorical myth of Germany and, in a way, the world between the 1930’s and 1950’s

It is an allegorical myth of Germany and, in a way, the world between the 1930’s and 1950’s

His second skill is: he can destroy glass by his voice, and he uses that for all kinds of mischief

The letter stickers on top of the handles will easily fall off, but super glue or permanent marker will work nicely.

These stickers don't stick well and are already falling off.

this product---young kids can rip off the stickers on the top of the handle.

The letter stickers on top of the handles will easily fall off, but super glue or permanent marker will work nicely.

Such a fun set of bells, beware the stickers on top with the notes come off very easily.

In any case, it's for our 9 y/o grandson who loves to make noise

As another reviewer aptly put it, he is the lonely voice crying in the wilderness

He needed a narrator who could not be considered complicit in what the Nazis did, or we could not trust his voice.

The narrator does justice to the writing and gives haunting voice to the main character

With his drum Oskar can now break glass, be it may church window, his teacher's eye piece or doctor's mason jars by playing the drum or by just his shrill voice

The Onion Cellar is as flippant an interpretation of "German guilt" as I've ever read; yet it rings true, for that time as well as now.

The embouchure shown in the picture has been replaced with an s-crook mouthpiece to enhance visibility of the keys while playing

He rejects the term resistance for the minor disturbances that he causes

They were put together wrong with the C and D bells having the exact same numbered bell; obviously a mistake which needs to be corrected!

It is an allegorical myth of Germany and, in a way, the world between the 1930’s and 1950’s

Oskar is one of the grand creations of modern literature: a mentally disturbed man whose story can't be trusted, but who clearly suffered through tragic events that would drive anyone mad, and who arrived at a more insightful understanding of life than most "sane" people will ever know

Moreover, the story is so intense, so moving, in a sense so miraculous, the reader wants to believe it, even knowing that it comes from a delusional man who describes physically impossible events

It's an exaggeration, but not much of one, to say that this book is just a series of weird events, one occurring after the other

What will stay with me the longest are the amazing descriptions of fictional people and events:

Grass offers his readers so much more, than the superficial events that transpire on the page