Macon kazoo world record

1,780 People in Georgia Went for a World Record… But Failed



Macon, Georgia
went for a
kazoo world record
on Friday. 
1,780
people turned out to break the record for largest kazoo ensemble, but it wasn’t enough.  They needed about three times that many.  The 
record
 is
5,190
, set in
London
in 2011.

It’s the third time Macon has tried and
FAILED
to break the record.  No one knows for sure who invented the kazoo.  But the most popular 
theory
 is a former slave from Macon came up with it around 1840.  So it’s 
known
 as the birthplace of the kazoo.

Here are
some clips
 from Friday.  Kind of ironic:  A r
eporter covered it
while they were in the middle of playing the song “
Bitter Sweet Symphony
“.


SOURCE: WGXA


 




Macon 'buzzing' over today's kazoo world record attempt






Macon getting ready for kazoo record attempt

There will be an attempt today to set a new Guinness World Record for kazoos in the city of Macon and proceeds from the attempt will go to the Otis Redding Foundation and Otis Redding Center for the Arts. Paul Milliken is in Macon.




MACON, Ga.
- Have you heard the big buzz out of Macon? You will this afternoon… loud and clear!

Later this afternoon, thousands of people are expected to crowd into Macon’s Atrium Health Amphitheater to take part in a Guinness World Records attempt. The goal? Create the largest kazoo ensemble in history!

The current record for the largest kazoo ensemble is 5,190 people, set at the Royal Albert Hall in London back in 2011. But local leaders want to bring the record to Macon as a way to honor the Georgia city’s historical ties to the instrument. According to local legend, a previously enslaved Black inventor named Alabama Vest created the kazoo in Macon in the 1840s, initially building the instrument out of a wooden tube with an attached piece of paper. The story goes that Vest brought his invention to local clockmaker T


Thousands of kazoo-humming attendees, including some from out of state, heartbreakingly failed to break the Guinness World Record for the largest kazoo ensemble on Friday in Macon.

Around 2,500 people paid $5 to play plastic kazoos for five minutes straight at Atrium Health Amphitheater. The world record for the largest kazoo ensemble had 5,190 people.

During the five minute riff, the crowd hummed Macon-esque hits by the Allman Brothers and Otis Redding, and other tunes including the Super Mario Bros. and “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” theme songs.

More than half the crowd had left Atrium Health Amphitheater before the hosts revealed whether the group had broken the record.

Macon has now failed not once, not twice, but three times to break this record. It also failed in 2006 and 2007.

Aaron Sadovsky, a self-described rocker, drove nine hours from Coconut Grove in Miami to Macon, solely to try and help break the record. A gold kazoo he won during a Jam Cruise hung from his neck.

“This could be our finest moment yet,” the top hat-wearing man said. “I refuse to believe that anyone could come here and have a bad time.”

Mary Kate Wootten showed up two hours before the record at

Macon can’t hit the high note, fails third kazoo record attempt



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Nearly 2,000 Maconites showed up to the amphitheater Friday afternoon in an attempt to set a world record for largest kazoo ensemble.

Ultimately, Bibb County came up short of the 5,191 participants needed to join the Guinness Book of World Records. Only about 1,780 kazooists were in attendance, said Brenda Cassabon, a spokesperson with TK PR who represents Visit Macon. At capacity, the amphitheater holds 10,000, and Visit Macon ordered the same number of kazoos.

Macon failed twice to beat the world record in the past, once in 2006 and another time in 2007. The current record for the largest kazoo ensemble was set in 2011 in London.


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Kazooists played a selection of songs with Macon connections including “Hard to Handle,” “Get Up Offa That Thing,” “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay”, “Ramblin’ Man” and “Tutti Frutti.”

Kazoos were provided, and proceeds from the $5 tickets went toward the Otis Redding Foundation.

Jeremy Bryant, a Macon resident, came to try to help break the record, and although he said he was hopeful, noted th