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MUSICAL NOTE DISPLAY

by nixo_the_modder · on CurseForge

Shows a live floating label above each Note Block with its exact pitch, note name, octave, and instrument — so you can see what a Note Block is set to…

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MUSICAL NOTE DISPLAY


Note Blocks in vanilla Minecraft are frustratingly opaque: you can right-click one to cycle through 25 pitches and hear a sound, but there's no persistent, at-a-glance way to know which pitch you've landed on, what octave it corresponds to, or which instrument the block underneath it produces — short of memorizing the sound or breaking out a wiki page mid-build.

 

This addon solves that by attaching an invisible, non-colliding "display" entity to each Note Block that renders a floating name-tag directly above it. That name-tag is generated dynamically from the block's actual state, so it always reflects reality:

 

Each of these elements can be individually toggled on or off, and the label's color, bold, and italic styling can be customized — either per-block or as a personal default that applies to every new label a player creates.

Core Features

What Problem It Solves

Note Block music (redstone-driven songs, music machines, "note block statues," etc.) is a long-standing Minecraft Bedrock tradition, but building or debugging a tune is tedious because:

  1. Pitch is invisible - The only feedback for a Note Block's pitch is a sound and a small particle — you can't see it, compare it against neighboring blocks, or verify it without listening to each one individually.
  2. Instrument depends on an easy-to-forget rule - (the block underneath), so it's easy to place the wrong material and not notice until you hear the wrong sound.
  3. Large builds are hard to audit - In a multi-block contraption (song machines, note block "pixel art" instruments, puzzle maps, etc.), there's no way to visually scan a whole structure and confirm every block is tuned and voiced correctly.

Musical Note Display turns each Note Block into a self-labeling, self-explaining object — turning an audio-only, trial-and-error workflow into a visual one. Builders can look at a bank of Note Blocks and immediately read off the exact note, octave, and instrument of each one, making it dramatically faster to compose, verify, and troubleshoot Note Block music without ever needing external pitch/instrument reference charts.

Quick facts

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