Organ Pipes Turned to Dust: The Mysterious Tin Pest Legend #shorts

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]Yet, 300 years earlier, legends of such a transformation spread across northern Europe.

[00:00:06]It was a bitter winter morning, and it had been like this for months. The organist [music] was on his way to a cathedral. The cold had been messing with the organ pipes. It's gone out of tune again. But, that wasn't what the congregation thought. There were stories of other organs getting sick with warts [music] or leprosy eating away at the pipes.

[00:00:27]Some thought it was the devil attacking [music] the organ to punish an unfaithful flock.

[00:00:33]It was even said that when it was very quiet, you could hear these organs screaming and groaning in pain from the lesions.

[00:00:43]Nonsense, of course. It was just the metal contracting and expanding.

[00:00:48]Except, these pipes weren't just contracting. They were cracked, and others are indeed covered in what looks like these lesions. Black growths all over the organ.