Angklung World Record

     In thursday, April 23rd there is a new world record. That is the record for peoples who play angling. There are 20.000 thousand people who played angklung on that day.  before bandung the record holder is jakarta for 13.000 peoples who played angklung. This makes our lovely city proud. not only for breaking the record but we also played our own music instrument. the sponsor of this event is Saung Angklung Udjo, a very famous  angklung maestro in Bandung 

    At 7 am we were outside of the Siliwangi stadium. Then the committee let us in. They gave us angklung which named by islands in Indonesia such as Sumatra, Bali, Borneo and others. They gave us some snacks too. They were counting until there  were 20.000 peoples inside the stadium. After there were a lot of people,there were some opening speech by the Minister, the Governor of West Java, and the Mayor of Bandung. they were 100% supported this event 

    Then there was a man. he is the conductor of this event. He is the owner of Saung Angklung Udjo, They knew that there were a lot of people that never played angklung before. So they have an unique strategy. They used handsign to make people easier to play angklung. We played a lot of song such as "Halo Halo Bandung" but the climax was "We Are The World"song by Michael Jackson. The angklung made a beautiful sound when they played it 

    After we played it, to proof our numbers, they needed to a count our numbers if it were 20.000 peoples who played angklung then we really were breaking the record. We needed to sit and every 50 person there was a man standing. there were 400 peoples standing. so the record is ours. We really gave a lot of our energy on that play because the weather is very hot. but finally we were happy for breaking that record because we were doing it together