The record for playing Sarod for the longest duration was set by Shounak Roy (born on December 25, 2006) of South 24 Parganas, West Bengal. He played the Sarod for 4 hours, 45 minutes and 31 seconds (covering 32 different ragas of Indian classical music in Alaap, Jod and Jhalla format), at the age of 17 years, 4 months and 23 days.