European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 30. 1986 the stars and stripes Church trumpeter carries on centuries old musical tradition h Josema Poitier Bremer Hutn Bureau Hamburg Church trumpeter Hans Hermann Fiedler selected a i6lh-Cenlury chorale and from his Perch 413 pm up in he St. Michallis Church Steeple. Began to play his daily accompaniment to the sounds of City traffic below. As one of a dwindling number of Church Tower trumpeters the 57-year-old Fiedler is the personification Ofa Ira Dilion sire Ching Back to the Middle Ages. Find ice will have lots of company saturday when Church criers from across Western Europe join him at City Hall in Hamburg to celebrate the Moth birthday or the St. Michallis Tower. Reaching High into the sky above Hamburg s is. Pauli District the Steeple is a major City landmark. For the past 28 years and roughly  performances Fiedler has gone up the Steeple to play his chorales at 10 . And 9 . Another trumpeter takes Over on wednesday Fiedler s Dikiy off and find ice plays Only at noon on sunday. During those 28 years Fiedler has missed Only on performance and that was because of a severe electrical storm. Find ice said he worried that lightning would Knock out Power to the elevator and leave him stranded alone in the Church and somewhere by Iwen heaven and Earth. Fiedler s Job is much easier than his Middle Ages predecessors. The Post originated with the nightwatchman who went out each evening to act As police men watch for fires and Call out the time. Somewhere in the Distant past the time keeping function was switched to men in the Church steeples Fiedler said. Up in the Steeple the Job of Fiedler s predecessors included watching for approaching enemies and warn ing the townsfolk if the local Nobleman was coming to visit. Find ice works largely from a Book of 500 chorales that he mostly knows by heart. When he puts his Silver 12-year-old Yamaha trumpet to his lips lie plays the same Short chorale four times once toward each direction of the comp Ais. Although he comes from 3 Church family Fiedler said it was Chance that made him a Church trumpeter. "1 knew my predecessor very Well and he had to quit because of illness so he asked me to take Over Fiedler . Micmac is has had a Church trumpeter for nearly 300 years although Fiedler said it was under when the first trumpeter climbed the Steps to the Steeple. In 1906, a fire destroyed the wooden Steeple that had stood above the Church since 1786. The City government residents and donors throughout the world contributed