Note Block

Crafting
Note Blocks can be crafted by placing 8 planks in a square with redstone at the center.



Music
Note blocks play a note when hit or when powered by redstone. Redstone current only causes the note to play once, even if it is a continuous current. A note block must have at least one block of air above it to play a sound.

Each time a note block plays a note, a note particle will fly out of the top, with the color depending on the pitch (but not the instrument). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exriq7QEckA

Right clicking increases the note pitch up a half step, with a total of two full octaves being available to play. The range of notes span from F#2 to F#4. After reaching the highest note, right clicking again resets it back to F#2, as does breaking the block and picking it back up.

The instrument played depends on the block underneath the note block:

Other Information
Note Blocks can only play when there is at least a block of air above them.

History
Note Blocks were released on 13 January 2011 for the Beta release 1.2.