Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Connotations 1976
Adjudicators:	Maurice Handford , William Relton , Peter Wilson
Venue:	Radisson Blu Edwardian Manchester Hotel, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Black Dyke Mills	Peter Parkes	13	192
2	Brighouse & Rastrick	James Watson	15	190
3	Grimethorpe Colliery	James Scott	9	189
4	City of Coventry	Don Blakeson	14	188
5	GUS	Keith Wilkinson	4	186
6	Desford Colliery	Howard Snell	1	185
7	Foden OTS	Howard Snell	19	184
	Ever Ready	Eric Cunningham	2
	Bass Wingates	Denis Carr	3
	CWS (Manchester)	Derek Garside	5
	Hammonds Sauce	Roy Curran	6
	William Davis Construction	John Berryman	7
	Rochdale Wilsons	David Loukes	8
	Yorkshire Imperial	David James	10
	Whitburn Burgh	Tony Swainson	11
	Brodsworth Colliery	Kenneth Dennison	12
	Cory	Arthur Kenney	16
	Sun Life	Walter Barrow Hargreaves	17
	Besses o' th' Barn	Roy Newsome	18
	Jones & Crossland	Stephen Roberts	20
	Leyland Vehicles	Richard Evans	21
	Fairey Engineering	Kevin Bolton	22
	Carlton Main Frickley Colliery	Denzil Stephens	23

Hammonds Sauce was not invited to the 1984 contest.