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Guitar was a favorite instrument of Josef Mohr, who wrote the words for "Silent Night." His friend Franz Gruber had written the melody in only a few hours, and the song was first performed on Christmas Eve in 1818. Although shrouded by myth, the fact that Mohr needed a new carol for his Christmas Eve service seems to lend credence to a simple arrangement based on chords to support the melody that Gruber had created, which would be ideal for guitar.

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Q: Why did they use a guitar to play Silent Night?
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