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Rhayader Contest

Thu 20 Aug 1874



Format: Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators: Brinley Richards
Venue: Rhayader, Powys

Position Band Conductor Music
1 Welshpool Unknown L'italiana in Algeri [unknown arranger]
2 Merthyr Unknown Lucia di Lammermoor [unknown arranger]
3 Carmarthen Unknown
4 Tredegar Unknown
Cymmer Colliery James Prestwood

Rhayader Annual Horticultural Show

Prizes: 20 guineas, 3 guineas
Info received from 'morgand1' that Carmarthen later sued the Eisteddfod organisers for prize money as they claimed the winning band (Welshpool) should be disqualified for including 'clarionets' in the band when the rules stated ' all brass bands with no less that 16 players'. Result of appeal not known





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