Venezuelan musicians play in what they hope will be the world’s largest orchestra

Members of the National Orchestra System gather to try and break a Guinness World Record for most instruments used in a piece of music, in Caracas, Venezuela (Ariana Cubillos/AP)

Thousands of musicians, mostly children and adolescents, in Venezuela have tried to break the record for the world’s largest orchestra.

Hundreds of violins, violas and double basses, woodwinds, brass and percussion sounded at Venezuela’s military academy.