New Year's post about the importance of making music by ceramic angels

While shepherds watched their flock by night,
They saw a bright new shining star
They hear a choir sing
The music seemed to come from afar.

Hark, now hear the angels sing,
A king was born today,
And man will live for evermore,

Because of Christmas Day.

Wishing you a succesful and happy New Year, I would like to shortly recall an anecdote from the times before my current job in fine art shipments. Those who know me have most probably already heard it.
Back then I used to work for a world leading manufacturer of seasonal decorations and we were exporting a great deal of goods to Switzerland. Among our products, we had a wide range of ceramic angels for all possible occasions - baptism, first communion, wedding, Christmas, Easter, falling in love, baby shower etc.etc. which for long years used to be declared as the HS Code

69139093 Statuettes and other ornamental articles of earthware or fine pottery.

Everyone was happy about that until one day, when the Swiss customs suddenly doubted this classification. We had to send samples of our angels to the Main Customs Office in Bern, where as you suspect, Swiss guys are even worse than the Germans, as far as accuracy and the customs go :)

Our classification was considered quite correct with one exception: from now on, angels making music have to be declared as:

95051090 Christmas articles (excl. of glass, candles and electric lighting sets, natural Christmas trees and Christmas tree stands)

The notion of angels singing is present in many Christmas carrols, but not really to be explicitely found in the Bible itself. But the Swiss customs just seem to know better than the Bible, what angels were doing during the Nativity :)