To repeat a tiresome grievance over and over is to perform my name, but pluck my golden wires on an Irish coin or standard and I produce sweet music. What am I?
A harp
Wordplay on the idiom 'to harp on' (to dwell on a subject) and the harp, Ireland's official national musical emblem.
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