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Sheffield Contest

Mon 16 May 1870



Format: Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators: Mr. Hurst , George Raskoff
Venue: Queen's Hotel Grounds, Sheffield

Position Band Conductor Music Draw
1 Chesterfield Matlock and Clay Cross United Thomas Tallis Trimnell Herculaneum 1868
4
2 Leeds Model Farnley and Bradford United Richard Smith Maritana [unknown arranger]
2
3 29th West York Rifle Volunteer Band (Dewsbury) Benjamin Denton Jackson 'Worthy is the Lamb' from 'The Messiah' [unknown arranger]
1
4 Sheffield Artillery and Rotherham Rifles United Henry Saville Maritana [unknown arranger]
3
W 2nd Lancashire Rifle Volunteers (Darwen)
W Bacup
W Colne and Trawden United
W Dewsbury Old
W Holmfirth and District United
W Saltaire
W Wednesbury Borough

It was a condition that each band should consist of 40 players, meaning bands had to go to considerable trouble and expense to find the extra players.

Prizes: £30, £20, £12, reduced from £100, £50, £25, £10 as fewer than 2000 people attended.

Also cornet solo contest.





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