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US culture questions: In the Janis Joplin hit Me and Bobby McGee, she sings "I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna / I was playin' soft while Bobby sang the blues." When and why did harpoon become a term for a harmonica?

by /u/Takeoffdpantsnjaket in /r/AskHistorians

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