Bugle-call
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There is no greater hit: everyone in Poland knows this tune, for dozens of years it has been played on the radio, and every hour it can be heard over the Krakow Market Square: the bugler plays it to the four corners of the world from the tower top of St Mary’s Church, the city’s representative temple. The tune of St Mary’s bugle call breaks off abruptly: legend has it that during the Tartar invasion of the city, in the early Middle Ages, when a watchman played the bugle to warn the city of imminent danger, a Tartar arrow pierced his throat half-note.