Polish Pianist Fights Exhaustion For Guinness World Record In Gdańsk, Poland

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Warsaw, Poland 2 February, 2010 - Swollen fingers, exhaustion and pressure to perform to a public audience stand between Polish pianist Romuald Koperski and the Guinness World Record for “longest piano concert”. To get the record Mr Koperski has to continuously perform generally well known compositions, from classical pieces to jazz numbers and soundtracks from movies and musicals. Improvisation is not allowed.

Mr Koperski started playing a piano in a Gdańsk shopping mall at 10am on Wednesday and hasn’t stopped yet.

“This is a tough record,” said Mr Koperski, who has to keep playing until 3pm Sunday to take out the record.

“It’s a battle with adversary, destiny, exhaustion,” he said,

Back in 2004 Mr Koperski played non-stop for 54 hours only to have his Guinness title smashed by Hungarian pianist Charles Brunner.

In this Polish Year of Fryderyk Chopin, Mr Koperski said it’s time for revenge.

The time to beat? 101 hours and 7 minutes.

“I didn’t think it would be this hard,” Mr Koperski said three days into the challenge.

“[The record] is more of a sport category, I think,” he said.

“This is about endurance, certain abilities, the connection between muscle movement and the mind.”

“There is an audience watching the concert, you need to concentrate and give everything of yourself.”

By Victoria Ziarkowski
Freelance Writer

 

 

 

 

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