This is to congratulate Bill Schilling, organizer; the Buckeye State Harmonica Club, the Rubber Capitol Harmonica Club; and a total 1,882 harmonica players who are entered in the Guiness Book of World Records as "The Largest Harmonica Play-Along." The event was performed on September 23rd at the Rocky River Reservation, sponsored by the Cleveland Metro Parks system. The performers played the tune, Frere Jaques.
Also congrats to Gabe Fedor, another inductee in the Guiness Book in 2005(?), in a motorcycle category.
I was a Guiness inductee on April 17th, 1982, in Glendale, Wisconsin. I performed in
"The World's Largest Orchestra," with 6,229 other musicians, shattering the old record of 987 people, which had lasted for 110 years.
The orchestra event was sponsored by the Milller Brewery. We had so may people performing, that the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's conductor was placed in a balloon, above the mass orchestra, so that he could be seen by all performers. We played the tune, "Stars & Stripes Forever," by John Phillip Sousa.
John Broecker
