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There are five main brass band sections in the United Kingdom: Championship, First, Second, Third, and Fourth. Sometimes, a Youth section is also used, but this is not graded. ==Championship section== This is the section containing the very best bands in the United Kingdom who compete in the Open and National Brass Band Championships, established in 1853 and 1860 respectively. Bands such as Black Dyke, Brighouse and Rastrick, Fairey and Grimethorpe are placed in here. A few of these have professional or semi-professional players, but the contest has always been designed towards amateur musicians. The test pieces set for or commissioned by this section are extremely difficult and use complicated musical conventions and techniques to challenge the musicians. Music composed for this section in recent years has included "Eden" by John Pickard and "Montreux Wind Dances" by Carl Rütti. There are a range of different competitions for this section, from the Regional Qualifying Contests (also known as "Areas") to the European Brass Band Championships. The top ten bands in the Championship section (ordered by their (4barsrest.com )/World of Brass international ranking, as of 1 January 2014) are; 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brass band sections in the United Kingdom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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