Toppling tone-producing toy apparatus

A toppling tone-producing toy apparatus for producing a plurality of tones comprising, in combination:

• a flexible belt having an upper surface, a lower surface, and a plurality of spaced and opposed semi-circular cut-out pairs formed thereon;
• a plurality of rectangular tiles, each tile having an upper edge, a lower edge, a front face, and a back face;
• a plurality of striker bars, each striker bar coupled to the back face of a tile near the upper edge;
• a plurality of T-shaped note bars, each bar produces a tone when struck by a striker bar;
• coupling means coupling each T-shaped note bar to the front face of its associated tile at a position to allow the note bar to produce a tone when struck by a striker bar on an adjacent tile;
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• a plurality of hinges, each hinge coupling the lower edge of each tile to the belt for allowing pivotal movement of the tile, the coupling of the tiles with the belt creates a linear configuration where the front faces of the tiles are directionally aligned and each tile is offset from adjacent tiles by a distance less than its height such that when a tile is toppled towards an adjacent tile, its striker bar contacts the note bar of the adjacent tile, whereby toppling the adjacent tile, produces a tone, and creates a toppling effect that ripples through the remainder of the configuration, thereby producing a plurality of tones from the note bars of subsequent toppling tiles.