This paper proposes that the silver pipes found in the Royal Cemetery of Ur (ca.2450 BCE) were intentionally made unfit for use after having been used to play music during the johnny cash style clothing funerary procession that led to the burial of the deceased in Private here Grave 333.Based on Mesopotamian archaeological and cuneiform evidence, as well as brief comparative observations, it is suggested the reason for this was so that the spirits living inside this wind instrument could not at some point in the future disturb the living.