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Advert: Besson launches British Open competition

Guess the prize winners at Symphony Hall and get your hands on some brilliant prizes from the Open sponsors.

Besson
 

Besson Musical Instruments has launched its own British Open competition with some great prizes on offer if you are able to second guess the official adjudicators on the day!

Great prizes

The contest sponsors are offering some great prizes if you can predict correctly the top 3 or the top 2 bands in the right order – including tickets to the Spring Festival in Blackpool in 2013, limited edition Besson shirts, a 4gb USB key full of up to date videos, photos, the new Besson catalogue full of the latest instruments and some fantastic CDs featuring top Besson artistes.

Go to Facebook

All you have to do to go to the Besson Facebook page and enter and you could find yourself winning some great prizes – if you can pick out those winning bands!

Go to: http://www.facebook.com/BessonLondon

Last minute choices

The competition ends just before the results are announced, so you can get your choices in right up to the very last minute!

Winners will be notified by e-mail during week of September 3rd

The competition ends just before the results are announced, so you can get your choices in right up to the very last minute!Besson

New flipbook presentations

The Besson Facebook page also offer you the brilliant opportunity to check out the latest Besson and Courtois instrument catalogues enriched with videos, links and downloads on-line thanks to fabulous new flipbook presentations.

Besson Flipbook: http://bit.ly/BessonFlipbook

Courtois Flipbook: http://bit.ly/CourtoisFlipbook

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