3,437 Japanese taiko drummers set new Guinness record

3,437 Japanese taiko drummers set new Guinness record

MORIOKA, Japan - A total of 3,437 Japanese "taiko" drummers pose for a commemorative photo in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on June 29, 2014, after performing in unison to break the current Guinness World Records number of 2,778 participants in an event of the kind set elsewhere in Japan in 2011.

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