Venezuela makes Guinness World Record attempt

World Today

Members of the National Orchestra System gather to try and break a Guinness World Record for most instruments used in a piece of music, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021. The musicians, all connected with the country’s network of youth orchestras, will play a 12-minute Tchaikovsky piece at a military base under the watchful eyes of hundreds of independent supervisors tasked with verifying that more than 8,097 instruments are played at the same time. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela hopes to set a Guinness World Record with the largest orchestra in the world. Thousands of musicians gathered recently in Venezuela’s capital to make an official attempt to set the record.