World's smallest violin
World's largest tuba
World's fastest violinist
World's fastest pianist
World's fastest drummer
Most recorded conductor
World's biggest orchestra
Yeah, so it's impressive and we admire the 'no-vibrato' stance on Baroque performance practice, but that intonation. It's all over the place.
A man in lederhosen plays Flight of the Bumblebee on the world's largest tuba. Because Germany.
There are loads of YouTube videos purporting to show the fastest
performance of Flight Of The Bumblebee, and it's very tricky to know for
sure who the current record-holder is. But we've got a soft spot for
the electric-haired, omni-smiling, spangly-jacketed violin munchkin Ben
Lee. Here he is smashing his own record in Hong Kong in front of a
scarily silent audience.
In this bizarre, hypnotic video, pianist Bence Peter has the
expression of a man who really wants to hit piano keys fast. Really
fast. So how many times did he manage to play the same note in one
minute? Watch to find out the exact figure, but the rough answer is
'chuffing loads'.
If pianos aren't doing it for you, then take a look at this
surprisingly calm video of Tom Grosset tap-tapping away at an electric
drum, rattling up an astonishing 1,208 hits in one minute, beating the
previous world record by just 5.
Herbert von Karajan, the one and only, the inimitable and
much-missed conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, is officially the most
recorded conductor of all time. And with performances like this heroic Brahms symphony, it's perfectly clear why.
World's biggest orchestra
In 2013, a whopping gaggle of 7,224 musicians gathered in Brisbane's
Suncorp Stadium to beat the world record for the largest ever orchestra.
Unfortunately, they picked 'Waltzing Matilda' as one of their pieces,
but still, impressive stuff.
