One of the best places to see the blast was on a strip of muddy land outside the Eight Towers pub, which face directly towards the Fiddler's Ferry coal-fired power station.
The guests were now arranging themselves at one end of the room, the fiddler was mending a string, the serpent-player was emptying his mouthpiece, and the play began.
Repetition Makes Perfect In the 1990s, a team of German psychologists revealed that it takes 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to become a professional violinist.