Several thousand Taiwanese schoolchildren set a world record for the greatest number of people playing the violin at the same time on Sunday, according to reports.
Gathering in Changhua County in central Taiwan, 4,645 elementary and junior high school students played their violins together in unison, according to the Central News Agency.
A Guinness World Records official observed the event and said it broke the previously held record, which was set in London back in 1925 when 4,000 people played together.
"Every student participating in the performance will obtain a certificate from the Guinness Book of World Records as a testament to history,” Changhua magistrate Cho Po-yuan told the agency.
The schoolchildren played three pieces for five minutes to meet the Guinness requirement in order to break the world record.
"Creating a world record is not our goal. The event is to review a music education promotion program for schoolchildren launched seven years ago," Chang Chueh-fen, an official with Changhua county, told AFP.
