A noisy, unnecessary world record and, by the own admission of the journalist of Guardian who participated in it, completely “stupid”. But to get into the story, sometimes you have to be tricky. Thus, nearly 10,000 inhabitants of Melbourne, Australia, have made an appointment to blow together in kazoos, tiny plastic instruments that give off the sounds of modified voices.
An unusual and childish world record
For the adults present, getting started is not always easy. Some blow with all their might without it having any effect. After a period of adaptation, everyone took to the game, to the point of coordinating to play entire pieces.
“It was the dumbest thing I’ve ever done and yet I don’t know if I’ve ever felt so joyful or free,” Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, the now incarcerated Guardian reporter, told the same title that remains of the crowd, of this unusual record.