Jokes
Accordionists
How can you tell that there's an accordionist at your front door?
He doesn't stop knocking even after you answer.
Largest choir
Excluding sing-alongs by stadium crowds, the greatest choir assembled contained 60,000 singers who sang in unison at the finale to a choral contest held among 160,000 participants in Breslau, Germany on August 2 1937.
Bagpipers
Why do bagpipers walk when they play?
To get away from the noise.
Singers
How can you tell that there's a vocalist at your front door?
She forgot the key and doesn't know when to come in.
Drummers
How can you tell that there's a drummer at your front door?
The knocking gets faster and faster.
An optimist
What's the definition of an optimist?
A folk musician with a mortgage.
Folk Singers
How many folk singers does it take to change a light bulb?
Three.
One to change the bulb and two to write a song about how good the old light bulb was.
Fastest Yodel
The fastest yodel was 22 tones (15 falsetto) in one second on February 9, 1992, by Thomas Scholl of Munich, Germany.
Longest Concert by a Group
The Grand Boys played for a record 42 hr 38 min from February 20–22 2004 at Smith's Restaurant, Stirling, Scotland, UK. The group – charity fundraisers – opened their record-breaking set with an apt song: Dedication, the theme tune to the classic BBC Record Breakers TV show by Roy Castle!
"It was a long hard slog which left us with sore fingers, no voice and extremely tired," say the band on the website. "But content!"
Largest Violin Ensemble
On June 15, 1925, at Crystal Palace, London, UK, 4,000 child violinists gathered to play Recollections of England - Selection by Mareston, conducted by Arthur Payne and assisted by HM. Grenadier Guards Band.