RECORD PIANO PLAYING
(Per Press Association.)
INVERCARGILL, May 14.
James S. Stirton, an endurance piano player, finished a feat on Saturday night which it is claimed constitutes a world's record for endur-
ance piano playing. , Stirton whose work was supervised by a local committee *' commencecT playing at nine o'clock^ on Wednesday morning 'by eleven- o'clock on Saturday night he had ibeen playing conltinuously for eighty-six hours. - ELe finished strong ly. at five minutes past eleven amidst
greaf excitement on the part; of some six hundrtd people who had assem-bled in the Sail on Saturday evening. Stirton though a. little haggard looking was apparently 'none tEe worse for his self-inflicted ordeal and was warmly cheered at the conclusion of a £»risk address 'to his audience: ■" =
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Grey River Argus, 15 May 1911, Page 5
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