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4BR National Final Competition

Thanks to our friends at Geneva Instruments we have a fantastic Symphony cornet up for grabs if you can pick the National winner at the Royal Albert Hall.

Geneva
 


Geneva Musical Instruments and 4BR have got together to provide a fantastic opportunity to win a brilliant Geneva 'Symphony' cornet for a band of your choice.

Pick the Albert Hall winner

All you have to do is pick the band who you think will be crowned 2015 Champion Band of Great Britain at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday 10th October.

Geneva will then get in touch and will make arrangements to present the instrument to the band of your choice.

Your choice of who you give the prize to can be a band of any standard in any section — it's your choice who the fantastic cornet goes to if you win.

Choose your band

It's a brilliant way for you to make a real musical difference to a band that you want to support — and give a lucky cornet player the chance to perform on an instrument that is the choice of world class stars such as James Fountain.

Pick your band

All you have to do is pick the band from the following list:

Please remember that you need to give us your contact telephone details and the name of the band you wish to donate the instrument to.

a) Black Dyke
b) Brighouse & Rastrick
c) Camborne
d) Carlton Main Frickley
e) Co-operative Funeralcare
f) Cory
g) Desford Colliery
h) Fairey
i) Flowers
j) Foden's
k) Friary Guildford
l) Grimethorpe Colliery
m) NASUWT Riverside
n) Northop
o) Reg Vardy
p) Tongwynlais Temperance
q) Tredegar
r) Virtuosi GUS
s) Whitburn
t) Zone One Brass

Your choice of who you give the prize to can be a band of any standard in any section — it's your choice who the fantastic cornet goes to if you win.4BR

Answers:

You must e-mail us the answer before the start of the results ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday 10th October with your contact telephone details and the band you wish the instrument to be donated to if you win at: quiz@4barsrest.com

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