SOUVIK CHAKRABORT Y
Record Holder
Musicians
OF INDIA
We all know about our celebrated singers setting chartbuster records and being part of
popular media, but we hardly come across those musicians who out of their passion for music
had done something so extraordinary that very few people can actually even think of let alone
achieving the feat. The madness for music has a wide range of eccentrity and it does not only
limit to the talent of just the musicians but it also delves deep to the understanding of music
in a community. The list below will speak of the variety and the beauty of music; how it is
perceived and how it is pursued by the ones who have deified it in their lives.
The record setting 43 Notes on a Piano in One
second- Mr. T. S. Satish Kumar who was born on 16th
November, 1975, set in stone an unbelievable piece of
record, by hitting 43 notes on a piano in one second. He
used both his hands with equal dexterity to reach this
impeccable feat. He is a music teacher and composer in
Hyderabad and he achieved the record on January 16, 2018.
100 words song with 'SA'- Prasanna Bhojashettar is an
engineering student and a singer, artist and musician
of from Karnataka. In a bizarre record he has actually
managed to write and sing a 100 words' song which
begins with the sound ‘Sa’ in Kannada language and he
set this record on 18th September 2016.
1090 notes on Harmonium with single hand in one
minute- A Musician of Delhi, Manish Sharma who was
born on March 02, 1992, actually did the unthinkable and
achieved the feat at Durgapuri, Shahdara, Delhi on
July 27, 2017.
Largest Harmonium Ensemble- At the Tana Riri
Festival of 2016, one of the District Administration of
Gujarat successfully attempted and set the new world
record for the one and only one largest harmonium
ensemble with over half a thousand musicians. The
festival grabbed major media attention as the event
resonated along the banks of a Lake in Vadnagar,
Gujarat.
50 Hindi Movie Songs in Duet for 2 Hours & half
hours- Dr. Madhusudan Ghanekar & Mr. Kiran Gandhi,
from Pune entertained the audience at a hall in Pune to
set new records with Bollywood music. Not only did they
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sing in duet but also whistled
the Bollywood movie songs,
choosing from a wide range of
classics and trending songs.
67 songs on Veena for five
hours- It is simply mind
boggling that the passion and
the craze for music drives a singer to the extent that they
can actually do the Herculean task of doing something
not humanly possible, South Indian singer Vaikkom
Vijayalakshmi has done just that. She set a world record
by playing 67 songs at a concert non-stop for five hours
that too on a gayathri veena, which is also a single-
stringed musical instrument.
The inventor of 'sushri’, smallest musical
instrument- was invented by G. Jayaprakash from
Kerala. The dimensions of the instrument is no bigger
than a match box; it measures 4.5 cm length, 1.5 cm
width and 1 mm thickness. With this miniature mouth
organ Mr. jayprakash has already entered into the Limca
Book of Records. The instrument is well researched and
developed so much so that it is capable of playing all
the seven musical notes on it, and it also recreates the
sounds of multiple instruments like saxophone, clarinet,
shehnai and nadaswaram at the same time.
It is very inspiring that music is taken by heart by
so many innovators, communities and of course
audiophiles, hope the readers and the seekers of the
records meet each other, and even newer records are
meant and broken in the days to come!