Skeletons make feint noteblock sounds when spawned, idle, or walking around. It's in addition to the rattling bone sounds, and happens during creative, survival, and survival with cheats. I've found this not only during gameplay with optifine and a resource pack, but also with optifine alone, resource pack alone, and neither.
I even went to the website, downloaded a new copy MC, threw it in an empty folder on desktop, and moved my .minecraft out of appdata. I have no mods, no maps, no optifine, nothing more than 100% vanilla minecraft like this. My findings? Noteblock skeletons. Everywhere.
I've always noticed this for as long as I remember, but never thought about reporting it as I didn't know it was a bug.
Uploading audio without video is a bit of a pain for me since I can't seem to do one without the other.. and splitting them always gives me errors and/or corrupts the files, so if someone else can attest to this, it'd be really appreciated.
Proof has been added in way of Youtube video. Do take note.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOW9GBIUXTY
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Then I'll definitely have to provide video showing it happening within vanilla Minecraft. There's definitely nothing wrong with my hearing, but maybe your volume is too low? 🙂
Updated an hour ago with video proving it's not my hearing. Video yet remains either unwatched or completely ignored. I can easily replicate it on a brand new system a friend of mine built just a week or two ago too. I've already done it. If I need to pull out a recording program on his system, I will.
I would have assumed at least one person would have their stereo louder than volume 1, but I guess that's not the case. It's good to know what you're trying to listen for, I guess.
At 1:24 the first two skeletons don't make any note sounds, they just rattle bones. After the third skeleton is summoned, the notes gets consecutively louder as I summon them constantly till between 1:25 - 1:26 where it's loud enough to sound like someone's pressing piano keys in the background. 1:32-1:33 is a good example of several notes playing at once. Then as they stand around you can still hear notes playing in some dysfunctional pattern. It's also heard when I load into the map every couple of bone rattles because I had already spawned skeletons there before.
Last I checked, my bones do not play pianos or xylophones. Maybe yours do, but mine do not. That is not a skeleton sound. But whatever have you.
I listened closely at the given times, and a bit around them, still no noteblocks, these sounds have always been that way, cannot confirm with the video you've given, sorry
I understand why you would think it sounds like note blocks. Certain game sounds have random variances given to them, which can sound like music notes (a good example is the sound of experience orbs). Although it does sound like music, there are no note blocks that produce a sound like this one. What you are hearing is just the sounds that skeletons produce, with random variances applied to make them sound different.
Just like CubeTheThird said, experience orbs might have a 'ding' sound played high pitched. So, this might sound as an instrument playing.
Henry Berger, you are not crazy. I hear the same sound and find it very annoying. I might be crazy though, as according to the official wiki this is the actual "Idle" skeleton sound and the sounds for skeletons have not been changed since 1.4.2, but I did not notice musical skeletons until 1.13. So I guess we can't report this as a bug since it is apparently the intended sound, but it's a stupid sound. I can't imagine why skeletons should make note sounds. I also have no idea why I just now noticed it if it's actually been there forever, but now that I've noticed it it's driving me mad.
Sorry, but this is an issue with your hearing.