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JAPANESE musicians overcame fatigue and a major earthquake to set the record for the world's longest concert yesterday, playing 184 hours non-stop in a programme that ranged from Beatles classics to traditional harp music.
More than 900 musicians aged six to 89 took turns performing in the nine-day marathon . . . with breaks of no more than five minutes between acts . . . at a small railway station in Hikone city, western Japan, according to organiser Kuniko Teramura.
The previous record for longest concert was set in Canada five years ago and lasted 182 hours.
Last Sunday, a magnitude 6.9 quake in northwestern Japan jolted the stage but didn't stop a determined pianist from ploughing on with her tune, said Hiroshi Mizutani, another organiser.
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