Our new organ will have a set of pipes called the "Vox Humana," Latin for the "human voice." Organ builder Martin Pasi is finishing these pipes now. They are modeled after a famous Vox Humana stop [LISTEN] in the organ of the Benedictine Abbey in Weingarten, Germany, [SEE] around which there is a fantastic legend:

Organ builder Josef Gabler tried to make a pipe that sounds like the human voice, a VoxHumana.  He tried different types of woods and metals, but nothing worked. Gabler is said to have made a pact with the Devil, selling is soul for the mysterious metal alloy that would yield the perfect imitation of the human voice.  The pipes worked. They sounded just like the human voice, but they would only play secular music.  The monks of the abbey objected, and demanded that Gabler replace the diabolical pipes.  He replaced the pipes, was forgiven of his sin, and the Vox Humana thereafter played only sacred music.