What fun would a Saturday morning be without a new Guinness World Record winner?
This time it’s Japan that can take a bow: Over 900 Japanese musicians ranging from ages 6 to 89 took turns playing continuously over nine days, for a record-breaking 184-hour concert. If that’s not impressive enough, they kept on going right through fatigue and a major earthquake--a 6.9 whopper, to be exact.
According to Yahoo! Music, the program spanned a variety of music from the Beatles’ classics to traditional harp tunes. The previous record was held by Canada since 2002, and that one clocked in at 182 hours. A representative from the Guinness Book certified the new champion on 10 a.m., saying, "The longest concert by multiple artists was achieved by Kuniko Teramura and friends at Toriimoto Station ... from 23-31 March 2007."
To qualify for the prize, the musicians were not allowed to take breaks and could not stop playing less than two minutes into the song, says Hiroshi Mizutani, who was fondling the piano right through the earthquake. Good times.
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