Product Description

Inspire your little one with music, even at the earliest age. This plush five-piece band lets baby musicians create their own beat. Includes a fish tambourine, starfish cymbal, clam shaker, lobster maraca and octopus drum. Each soft instrument produces a catchy tropical tune. Measures 10" x 7" x 12.5".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12381 in Baby Product
• Brand: Infantino
• Model: 150-831
• Released on: 2007-10-10
• Dimensions: 6.00" h x 7.00" w x 5.00" l, 4.25 pounds

Features

• Octopus drum plays a tropical tune and keeps the band together inside his handy storage compartment.
• Lobster maraca performs a jingle and has a linkable ring to go on tour!
• Teether clam shakers can perform a duet or be separated for a solo.
• Fish tambourine is open to baby's requests with her fun peek-a-boo window.
• Plush cymbal is a shining star that rattles when baby shakes!

From the Manufacturer
Things are really shaken' with BabyBeachBand! This plush five-piece band has all the right moves. Clam shakers, lobster maraca, starfish cymbal, fish tambourine and an octopus drum that plays a groovy tropical tune. It's everything baby needs to rock out on the nearest reef.

Customer Reviews

Bop to the music!
It's true that it's not quite what I expected; it looks like a series of musical instruments and it's more like soft puppets that happen to make noise, but if you realize that's what it is, it's so much fun! The octopus "drum" is soft enough to drum with any-sized child, and its song (press one of the tentacles) is catchy enough that we wore the battery out. The maracas shake and rattle, and the lobster chimes when it shakes. These are simple "instruments" for the smallest children, not realistic music makers. Our child loves hitting the "tambourine" and the "drum," and he definitely dances when we play the octopus song.

So, no, not for the musical virtuoso in your house. For that, there's better. But for simple cute noisemakers (that all easily fit back into their own carrying case, by the way, in the form of the octopus), this is a keeper.

I'm not trying to create a Baby Mozart
I bought this item for my son @ 2 months of age. He receives p.t. for a tightness in his neck and this toy always engages him in his stretches. Besides using it in therapy, he loves it at home, he's now almost 8 months. I didn't expect this to create the sounds of the Beatles, I expected it to be a baby toy that allowed him to use his sense of curiosity with it and that's what he does. He loves when I tap the top of the drum and then he taps it(this toy is definitely not a babysitter, you have to engage in it with your child) also, he shakes the clam shells and the lobster but he taps the tambourine, like he should to hear the different sounds. The octopus drum has crinkly legs, which he loves and a short tune (what baby has a very long attention span? And remember repitition is key for infants). Also as the child gets older, you can use the drum to show how you put things in and then take them out. I think maybe other parents expected too much from this item. It's very simple, not a lot of bells and whistles, but that's the best part. You're baby can make it whatever he or she wants, sometimes its a chew toy, sometimes we bang the drum and sometimes we just plain explore it by putting things in and taking them. All in all this is a wonderful product for the price, the quality is good (all items but the drum I have put in the washer) and my son always finds it interesting.

Very disappointed in this product.
We bought this for our son for Christmas this year based on glowing reviews. What a disappointment! The "musical instruments" are basically glorified rattles that all sound basically the same, the song the drum plays is tinny, scratchy, and short, and nothing seems very well made. I at least expected the different instruments to sound different from one another.

On the plus side, it is cute, and the lobster has a pretty wind chime like sound.