Monday, June 24, 2013

  Largest Keyboard Ensemble: New York festival breaks Guinness world record

Greenwich Village, NY, USA -- A total of 175 people, both professional and amateur, played Pachelbel's Canon in D simultaneously for more than five minutes out on Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village, setting the new world record for the Largest Keyboard Ensemble, according to the World Record Academy: www.worldrecordacademy.com/ .

  Photo: The group played Pachelbel's "Canon," setting a World Record as the largest electronic keyboard ensemble. Yamaha provided the keyboards used on Friday and donated them after the performance to the Department of Education for public schools in New York City. Photo: Cindy Ord ( enlarge photo )

 The previous Guinness world record for the largest keyboard ensemble consisted of 136 participants between the ages of 6 and 17 years old who performed a medley of songs from around the world at Music Centre, School Of Music, Thrissur, Kerala, India.

  Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the longest marathon playing keyboard/piano; it lasted 103 hr 8 sec and was completed by Romuald Koperski (Poland) at Alfa Centrum, Gdansk, Poland.

  The previous world record was set last year in Sri Lanka with 160 keyboards.

  The keyboards were donated by Yamaha and will go to 19 city schools.

 "Music is really a powerful thing and more people need to play it," said Yamaha's Mark Anderson.

  The record breaking event was a kickoff for the Make Music New York festival, now in its seventh year. The festival features over 1,000 free concerts in a single day. Check out its website for a schedule.

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