Hong Kong aims to break its own Guinness record by recruiting at least 11,000 people to play percussion instruments on both sides of Victoria Harbour at the end of the year.
The performance is one of the main events that will launch the city's first international festival for both able-bodied and disabled artists. The festival is being organised by the Health, Welfare and Food Bureau, and the Arts with the Disabled Association.
The largest percussion performance listed in Guinness World Records was held at the Hong Kong Coliseum on July 2, 2002, when 10,102 people played a percussive rhythm - entitled Ten Thousand Hearts Beat As One - for more than six minutes.
Arts with the Disabled Association vice-chairman Lena Lee Ying said 85 professional musicians from the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra would join the performance, scheduled for 2.30pm on December 3 on the Tsim Sha Tsui and Wan Chai waterfront promenades. The performance will last for several minutes.
The plan was revealed at a meeting of Legco's welfare services panel yesterday.
The association had started recruiting volunteers to take part in the performance by presenting its plan to 16 of the 18 district councils.
