{"id":319286,"date":"2017-05-15T10:15:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T10:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=319286"},"modified":"2017-05-15T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T10:15:40","slug":"femi-kuti-breaks-saxophone-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=319286","title":{"rendered":"Femi Kuti &#8216;breaks&#8217; saxophone world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week after just missing out on the world record Nigerian musician Femi Kuti can now claim the title of the person who has played a single note on a saxophone for the longest time.<\/p>\n<p>According to his Twitter feed he played the note for more than 51 minutes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NewProfilePic?src=hash\">#NewProfilePic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e6aMxR6Csg\">pic.twitter.com\/e6aMxR6Csg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Femi Anikulapo -Kuti (@Femiakuti) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Femiakuti\/status\/863906074474270721\">May 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He thought he had broken the record last week after blowing the note for 46 minutes 38 seconds but someone pointed out that American Vann Burchfield has gone over 47 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>This time Femi made sure there was no ambiguity:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Femiakuti\">@femiakuti<\/a> broke the record today. 51 minutes, 35 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>And I was there! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uuvAEJEUl4\">pic.twitter.com\/uuvAEJEUl4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lola Shoneyin (@lolashoneyin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lolashoneyin\/status\/863882868786900992\">May 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The saxophonist uses a circular breathing method to sustain the note.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Guinness World Records discontinued this particular category where circular breathing is used and will not certify Femi&#8217;s achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, we made this short film of how he manages to play for so long.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week after just missing out on the world record Nigerian musician Femi Kuti can now claim the title of the person who has played a single note on a saxophone for the longest time. According to his Twitter feed he played the note for more than 51 minutes. #NewProfilePic pic.twitter.com\/e6aMxR6Csg \u2014 Femi Anikulapo -Kuti [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[7130],"class_list":["post-319286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-femi-kuti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}