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4BR National Final Competition: Winner

Michael Evans of County Durham has won a superb Geneva Symphony Cornet thanks to his Cory National winner pick...

Symphony cornet
 

Thanks to everyone (and we had entries in the hundreds from all over the banding world) who took time to enter our National Finals 'Symphony Cornet' competition.

Pre-results votes

As you can imagine there were plenty of pre-results votes (and quite a few that came in after and had to be filtered out!) for the eventual winner Cory conducted by Philip Harper.

It therefore took a little while to get them all put in the electronic hat to eventually pick out the lucky winner who will get their hands on a superb Geneva 'Symphony' cornet (above).

4BR Editor Iwan Fox put his blindfold on and pressed the button, with the name of Michael Evans of Crook in County Durham being picked at random4BR

Pressed the button

4BR Editor Iwan Fox put his blindfold on and pressed the button, with the name of Michael Evans of Crook in County Durham being picked at random.

Michael was delighted when we managed to pass on the news and he will be donating the cornet to his band Bearpark & Esh.

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