On December 4, 2014, when the audience sat back to watch pianist Aman Bathla in action at the Epicentre at Apparel House in Gurgaon, Haryana, little did they know that they would be witnessing history. Bent over the piano, hands rippling across the keys at lightning speed, Bathla played a dizzying 804 notes in one minute. The feat earned him the title of the fastest pianist of India and a place in the India Book of Records. And, in the same sweep, he also shattered the record of then fastest pianist in the world, Bence Peter (Hungary), whose 765 notes in a minute did not match Bathla’s dexterity.