Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Richard Sourbutts
Venue:	Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Music
1	Alva Rifles	James Jenkins
2	Cambusnethan	William Chalmers
3	Portobello	Unknown
4	Clelland	Unknown
	Airdrie	Unknown
	Alloa Colliery	John McBeath
	Bonnybridge	James Jenkins
	Denny	James Jenkins

Source:
The Dundee Courier & Argus (Dundee, Scotland), Saturday, April 14, 1883; pg. [1]; Issue 9281
From original advert: "Open to all Scotland (Alloa band excluded)".
First annual contest.
8 bands competed.