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The world record for biggest bagpipe ensemble was broken in Melbourne on Wednesday, with 374 pipers playing in unison.
The ensemble played AC\/DC's It\u2019s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll) to a crowd of thousands.
It broke the previous record, set in Bulgaria in 2012, by 41.
Hundreds of bagpipers have made history in Melbourne's Fed Square, breaking the world record for the largest ever bagpipe ensemble.
A crowd of thousands gathered in the CBD to watch 374 bagpipers play along to AC\/DC\u2019s It\u2019s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll), shattering the world record.
The previous record was held by 333 bagpipers, who gathered at Sofia, Bulgaria in May 2012.
Several school bands were in attendance to help push the numbers to a record-breaking 374. (ABC News<\/span>)<\/cite>
For a few hours on Wednesday afternoon, Fed Square became a sea of tartan, as pipers from across the city came to contribute their pipes <\/strong>to the world record attempt.
The new world record came nearly 50 years after the filming of AC\/DC's iconic music video for It\u2019s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll), which took place nearby.
The music video, filmed along Swanston Street in Melbourne's CBD, featured lead singer Bon Scott playing alongside bagpipers from the Rats of Tobruk Pipe Band.
One of the pipers in the AC\/DC video is Les Kenfield, who first joined the Rats of Tobruk in 1970.
Despite having played alongside one of Australia's greatest ever rock bands, he admitted he had jitters before the big performance on Wednesday.
"I always get nervous when I have to perform for the public, I can't help it," Mr Kenfield said.
Les Kenfield is ready to play the bagpipes, 49 years after performing in AC\/DC's iconic music video. (ABC News<\/span>)<\/cite>
He said he hoped the world record would serve as a jolt in the arm for the piping community and revive interest in the art form.
"Piping is really a dying art, young kids don't really want to play, [whether] it's too difficult or whatever reasons," he said.
"We're getting old. In my band, if everyone over 70 resigned, there would be no band left."
There were a few young faces to be seen at Fed Square though, including piper Charli Millar.
"I love the pipes, and we needed as many people as we could to play, so I thought I'd play," she said.
"It's going to be so cool."
Charli Millar says she hopes the event will encourage people to take up the bagpipes.
Craig Richardson did not know about the world record attempt until a friend texted him about it a few weeks ago, and he knuckled down to practice.
"I've never broken a world record before, so I thought: if I'm going to break one, then today is the day," he said.
Campbell Wilson is the Senior Pipe Major of the City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band\u00a0and one of the organisers of the world record attempt.\u00a0
He said bands across the state had been practising for weeks in the lead-up to the attempt.
"The biggest challenge is absolutely getting everybody to play in tune because bagpipes are essentially four instruments in one," Mr Wilson said.
"If you multiply that by however many we end up having today, then that's probably the biggest challenge."
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