The Silver Trumpets

Chapter 5
The Silver Trumpets in question were for decoration only. They stuck out of the windows of each side of the topmost room of the Greyfriars Church tower, an area directly underneath where Thorman and the Archbishop had met, with tall gothic windows that left the room open to the elements and the occasional pigeon.
The Silver Trumpets protruded out of each window, two on each side, eight in all and it was doubtful that any of them could be blow. The sound that Action heard that everyone within a half-mile radius heard, was coming from loudspeakers, discreetly mounted above the Trumpets.
The speakers were controlled by a battered public address system that was partially covered by a blue tarpaulin to keep the weather off it. The guards had been tardy, and the speakers had not worked on the first attempt and some rewiring had been attempted. This had resulted in their call being half an hour late. The Trumpets were meant to sound on Sundays, in times of war and on the first day of every month after the last of the Burnt Offerings. It was the duty of the guards to sound the trumpets, but it was not one that they carried out with any sense of urgency.