Toby Rixhistory.

Début
In 1938/39 he plays the banjo in several amateur and semi-professional bands. At the same time he starts a duo, Sneezy and Snoozy, two boys and a guitar. Soon a girl makes it a trio: The Young Rambling Cowboys. (The girl will become a famous Spanish singer as Maria Zamora)
The trio manages to perform in radioprogramms, which means a lot at the time. Toby can soon leave his butcher's job and be a full-time performer.

Years during World War II
The Dutch audience adores the American style of the Young Rambling Cowboys, but under pressure of the Nazis, the american repertoire has to be abandoned. The group starts to sing Spanish songs and changes its name into Las Magelas. When the group splits, Toby starts his solo career as the musical comedian Pedro Lacuna, with mouth-organ, clarinet, banjo, tapdance and cascade. His great examples are Spike Jones, George Formby, Danny Kay and a Dutch comedian. 
His new name is invented by collegues during a tour in the country. Toby Rix.
The last year of World War II he has to go underground and can't work anymore.

The Tooterix
In 1946 Toby starts to gather motor-horns during a theatre-tour. He visits not only the theatres but every car graveyard in the country. He wants to reproduce the sound he heard from Spike jones and his orchestra, but then all by himself. The tooterix now is built in the shape of a xylophone. Once the cover comes off, the rubbish of claxons, horns, bells, cymbales is shown. But the sound appears to be no rubbish at all. Certainly weird and clownesque, but the tooterix will become an instrument of full value on which Toby learns to play all kinds of music. Eventually he'll play classical pieces on it, the crown on his creation. Following the written music, no tricks.
When he has the chance to see Spike Jones (so far he has only heard him play), he understands he has created his own instrument that has no resemblance at all.

After WW2 the variety theatre in the Netherlands and Toby prosper. He has his solowork as musical clown with many instruments: banjo, guitar, mouth-organ, clarinet, sax, trumpet, concertina, small concertina, ukelele, the tooterix and a series of selfmade instruments. He also starts a vocal group, Toby Rix and The Rainbow Trio, together four. Records are made, there is a lot of work in the theatre, on radio and television. Rix reaches the top.

The records
The fifties.With his parodies off No Parking Here (heer in't Verkeer, accompanied by his horns) everyone in the country knows him now. Malle Ventja, parody off Los Paraquajos' Malagueña, is even a greater hit. He accompanies himself with self-made harp. Other parodies are to come as the one off My Old Man's a Dustman and Uskadara.

Motor-horns on fire
1964. With his 15 jear old son Jerry Rix he works a season in the famous family-show De Snip en Snaprevue. During this period a drama takes place. The tooterix is burnt in a fire. The motor-horns, already hard to get in those years are sent to him from all over the country by fans, taken from their attics etc. A new, even better tooterix raises from the ashes.

Award
In the  seventies there is a dip in the variety-theatre. Toby continues his performances, but it is a difficult period. In 1977 he is awarded for all his musical work with De Gouden Notenkraker (the Golden Nutcrackers)

All over the world
In the eighties the foreign tours begin for Toby. At first in Germany: Berlin (Wintergarten), Düsseldorf, Frankfurt. After that he performs, mostly for television but also in theatres, in Argentine, Portugal, China, Japan, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Great-Britain, Spain, Chili, France. From 1987 a special co-operation develops between Toby and Willem Breuker and his jazz brass band.