Kenny G has shown he can carry a note for 45 minutes and 47 seconds, to be exact.
Kenny G set a record Monday for the longest-held note - an E flat on his saxophone, said Mark C. Young, Guinness Book of Records publisher."We never had a category like that before, but he wanted to do it so we put some rules and regulations together, got some witnesses, set the stopwatch and he did it," Young said.
Rules were that the pitch remain consistent and that the volume not vary by more than 5 decibel degrees in either direction.
The musician, whose soprano saxophone hits include "Songbird" and "Forever in Love," passed his original goal of 30 minutes by using a circular breathing technique.
"He eventually was forced to stop because of all the saliva that built up inside the instrument," Young said. "The monotony of it was also a pretty big problem."