Identifying a tune from an old toy
March 22, 2018 3:14 PM Subscribe
Can anyone identify this tune? It's in 3/4 or something, and sounds perhaps vaguely classical. Original source is a toy from about thirty years ago that plays it (=lower limit on the tune's age).
Response by poster: Oh, what a cool website -- I've got to bookmark this! I don't know if it's my browser or something, but I just see "UID belongs to you not found" when I click that link -- alas, uploading it myself, the two suggestions it provides don't seem to have the right tune (although one had the same musical meter and seemed to be within the temporal parameters!). Did you get anything particularly interesting in yours? For me it suggested "Ho messo via", an Italian pop song, and "God Be With You Til We Meet Again", a Christian hymn.
posted by inconstant at 8:59 PM on March 22, 2018
posted by inconstant at 8:59 PM on March 22, 2018
Do you have any more details about the toy? Make, model, country of origin?
posted by adiabatic at 9:54 AM on March 23, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by adiabatic at 9:54 AM on March 23, 2018 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Unfortunately, I don't really know a lot about the origin of the toy itself, because it was purchased at a garage sale and has no (remaining/legible) brand labels. It is a stiffly posed stuffed bear with a wind-up key in its back and a ribbon around its neck, sat perhaps ten inches in height; upon winding the key, the tune in question plays and the bear moves its head and arms slightly. (The motions may have been more dramatic when it was not 30 years old.) The eyes are dark glass or plastic and the nose is "drawn on" by embroidery.
posted by inconstant at 10:10 AM on March 23, 2018
posted by inconstant at 10:10 AM on March 23, 2018
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posted by stormyteal at 8:26 PM on March 22, 2018 [1 favorite]