Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Adolphus Frederick Godfrey , James Hartmann
Venue:	St. George's Hall, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw
1	Linthwaite	Edwin Swift	Recollections of Meyerbeer [unknown arranger]	1
2	Saltaire	John Gladney		8
3	Nelson	Job Nutter	Lucia di Lammermoor [unknown arranger]	7
4	Buttershaw Mills	Henry Jackson	Oberon [unknown arranger]	6
5	Black Dyke Mills	Samuel Longbottom	Magic Flute [unknown arranger]	5
6	Princess of Wales's Own Hussars (Bramley)	John Whiteley	Faust [Gounod, unknown arranger]	4
	Elland Victoria	N. Ermenie Goodall	Il Trovatore [unknown arranger]	2
	41st West York Rifle Volunteers (Mirfield)	John Brook	Magic Flute [unknown arranger]	3
	Bowling Old Original	Oliver Butterfield		9
	Stanningley	Samuel Wilson	Magic Flute [unknown arranger]	10

See
http://www.ibew.org.uk/misc4287.htm

19/20 December 1873

Ten bands competed. This first evening resulted in six bands going forward to the second contest on the Saturday