Right you crazy redstone fools, here's a project for you! Recreate this guy's awesome 7400 series drum machine in Minecraft.

http://hackaday.com/2011/10/22/7400-drum-machine-is-a-delight/

thats a lot of work, and the buttons will have a hell of a delay

That is so freaking cool!

But no, I'm not going to build that. It would make me lose my mind.

my only question would be how to modulate the sound? if you're simply going to use noteblock, then this would do the job:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DiTKDWDSA4

and then advance it to something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWkgiTvMZKQ