VV (1): Notes and Queries Section I

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In a message dated 10/02/2000 12:26:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
uzs7lz at uni-bonn.de writes:

<< "trumpeter of Cracow"
 ??? A reference to an opera?  >>
Cracow is a city in southern Poland. The taller of the two towers of St. 
Mary's Church in Market Square has, since at least the early 16th century, 
functioned as a watch-tower. A bugle-call has been played every hour from its 
windows into the four quarters of the globe; its melody stops abruptly, 
reputedly to commemorate the death of a watchman hit with a Tatar arrow.
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