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Glimpses of Christian History Presents Quiz #26: First Performance of "Silent Night" © 2007

 
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hat instrument accompanied the first singing of the Christmas carol "Silent Night."

a. Organ
b. Guitar
c. Accordian
d. Flute
e. None of the above

What did mice have to do with it?

 

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A guitar accompanied the first performance. Mice had nothing to do with it, despite a modern legend which says Franz Gruber played the guitar because mice had eaten a hole in the organ bellows.
  
       
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