Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Thomas Seddon
Venue:	Woodford

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw
1	Thrapston Town	Walter Reynolds	Maritana [arr. Round] 1888	6
2	Finedon Town	Walter Reynolds	Halevy [arr. Round] 1895	3
3	Rothwell Town	Walter Reynolds	Joan of Arc [Round] 1884	1
4	Rothwell Albion	Thomas Young	Halevy [arr. Round] 1895	2
	Kettering United	Randolph Ryan	Halevy [arr. Round] 1895	4
	Irthlingborough Town	Jeremiah Holdsworth	William Tell [unknown arranger]	5
	Long Buckby Temperance	John King Skinner	Schubert [arr. Round] 1894	7
	Broughton	Fred Tingle	Lucrezia Borgia [arr. Round] 1895	8

Reported in Northampton Herald, 26th September 1896
8 bands competed