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Re: Re: Open results

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Subject: Re: Re: Open results
From: Tim Morgan <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 12:25:22 GMT
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Hi Nigel (W) and all list members,
      It is a fact that after Dyke's run last year, there was talk of bribing 
adjudicators amongst brass band circles...proof of this can be seen in the 
aftermath of Dyke's victory at last year's nationals when another bandsman 
confronted James Watson himself on stage.  I personally did not hold with them, 
do not hold with them and never will hold with them...who wants to be involved 
in a movement corrupted with stuff like this, and of course never having a 
chance of winning!  If I had believed them to be true, I would have been long 
gone.  I was simply pointing out that Dyke's 14th placing at the Open has proved 
what I believed all along...the rumours are unfounded and untrue, and hopefully 
they will silence some of the more cynical amongst us.

This extract from BBW, November 1995, explains the incident: 'A bandsman from 
another competing band engaged James Watson in a conversation that he found 
extremely distasteful and everyone on the stage at the time was a witness to his 
distress.
   After any contest there is only one appropriate form of action for the other 
participants to take and that is to offer the victors their congratulations.  
This is a golden rule of competition and it is time it was observed by all those 
in tha banding movement who take part in competitions.'

I hope I have explained what I intended to put across, and we can let this 
unsavoury side of banding lie.

Best wishes,
-- 
Tim Morgan, Bass Trombone, Woolley Pritchard Sovereign Brass.


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