Buza Péter: Spring and Fountains - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1994)

This already is the third Bodor Fountain. It cam play no music, its Neptune does not rotate, only its form recalls the memory of the former craftsman of Transylvania

bronze figure, which moved around in the manner of a clock hand telling the time, played a beautiful tune at every quarter- day, at noon, at six in the afternoon, at midnight and at six in the morning. This music could be heard as far away as the surrounding villages.

However, as was rumoured in Transylvania, Péter Bodor committed some heinous crime. The city, even though its citizens respected him for his clever hands, sentenced Bodor to death. Since it was his last wish to listen to his musical fountain one more time, he was allowed to sound the device outside its regular hours. This he did, but the fountain played its tune for the last time. Who could tell what the vindictive handyman did to put the fine mechanism out of order? Nobody new how to repair it, and thus it would never again play for anyone. In 1911 it was pulled down, which could have been the end of this ancient story.

However, another Teleki Count-Domokos Teleki-ap- peared on the scene in 1935, producing 35,000 pengős for the Board of Public Works. Teleki stated his express wish to

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