BANDSMEN AND MONEY
A £2,500,000 HOBBY Working men musicians attending the National band contest at the Crystal Palace on September 29 took £95,000 with them. This is the value ot their instruments. The cost of a set of instruments for a brass band is roughly £SOO. There were 190 bands at the Palace. Despite the depression the ranks of miners' and mill workers' bands have increased by nearly '25 per cent since 1925. There are now 150.000 players in England and Wales and 10,000 in Scotland The value of their instruments is calculated at £2,500.000 and their uniforms at £750,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21396, 20 October 1934, Page 3 (Supplement)
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