Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Der Freischütz [arr. Winterbottom] 1867
Adjudicators:	Alfred Crowe , John Gladney Snr , Alfred Phasey , W. Williams , William Winterbottom
Venue:	Belle Vue, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Clay Cross (3rd Rifles)	John Naylor	18
2	Bacup	John Lord	13
3	Compstall Bridge	Henry Tymm	12
4	Mow Cop	D. Pogson	9
5	Dodsworth's	J. W. Dodsworth	19
	Meltham Mills	D. Wood	1
	Dewsbury	John Peel	2
	Heckmondwyke	John Parker	3
	Colne	James Duerden	4
	Buttershaw Mills (Bradford)	Henry Jackson	5
	Rochdale Healey Hall	Joseph Law	6
	Denton Original	Edward Moss	7
	Bradford Model	Frank Galloway	8
	Holmfirth Temperance	William Battye	10
	Liverpool West Derby	E. Armitage	11
	Todmorden	W. Brooks	14
	Darwen Rifle Corps	William Ellis	15
	Burnley	Joseph Ford	16
	Keighley (V.R.)	John Midgley	17

Prizes: 1st: £30 2nd: £17 3rd: £12 4th: £9 5th: £5

The Clay Cross band was composed of hand-picked players from Matlock, Chesterfield, and Clay Cross bands. The audience objected loudly to this throughout their performance. The adjudicators responded by announcing that, unless the audience allowed them to hear the band, they would be compelled to place it first, despite doubting that it could surpass the playing of the Bacup band. The audience not giving way, this came to pass, resulting in much ill-feeling, and a boycott of the Bacup band from the 1868 contest.