Amazing Kolintang and World Records
Kolintang and bamboo music performances at the North Sulawesi Art and Culture Festival were rewarded with four Guinness World Records. Did they also serve as an effort to prevent traditional music from being claimed by other nations?
November 10, 2009
"AMAZING…wonderful…,” Lucia Sinigagliesi kept repeating her words. This Guinness World Record (GWR) jurist, along with thousands of other spectators, was astonished by the largest kolintang (traditional wooden xylophone from Sulawesi) and bamboo music performances, last October 31, in the Maesa Tondano stadium, Minahasa regency, North Sulawesi. In this colossal art festival titled ‘The Stage of 10 from the North’, the atmosphere was imme
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