Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Fred Swift
Venue:	Montrose Cricket Grounds, Montrose

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw
1	Alloa	James Robinson
2	Clydebank	Richard Marsden		2
3	Bo'ness & Carriden	Adam Bell
4	Portobello	Thomas Moore		1
5	Lassodie	James Robinson
6	Brechin	Richard Marsden
	Arbroath	Unknown
	Broxburn	Unknown
W	Coatbridge
W	Musselburgh R.V.

Source:
The Dundee Courier & Argus (Dundee, Scotland), Monday, July 13, 1896; pg. 5; Issue 13428.

Prizes: £30, £25, £20, £10, £5

Quickstep contest:
1 Brechin
2 Clydebank
3 Bo'ness & Carriden

Best Cornet:
1 Alloa
2 Clydebank
Best Euphonium:
1 Alloa
2 Portobello