A new Guinness world record was set with some 8,000 drummers performing for more than five minutes in perfect rhythm. The previous record by 7, 727 drummers was created in February 2005 by Po Leung Kuk, a charity organisation in Hong Kong helping orphaned children.
Representative of the Guinness Book of World Record, Michael Whitty, officially endorsed the record. The drummers played a tune called 'Positive Vibrations' for almost 20 minutes composed by a local musician, Rudy Wallang, at Jawaharlal Nehru Sports Complex at Shillong, capital of India's northeastern Meghalaya state, October 28 2006.
Rudy Wahlang composed the 'Positive Vibrations' as per Guinness rules.
'The partakers included professionals, school children and ordinary people. There were about 1,000 indigenous drums played alongside the normal small drums,' an excited event official Aiban S. Mawkhroh said. The gala was watched by 20,000 people.
"Let the drum beats bring the people of the region together" was the call of the Meghalaya Tourism Development Forum or MTDF.
The assembly also kicked off the state's week-long Autumn Festival that traditionally have events like water sports, kite flying, fishing, archery, besides jugglers and entertainers from Australia.Indigenousherald.com congratulates the MTDF and all participants for achieving the laurel.