This is not a very good harmonica. It leaks too much air, making it hard to play, particularly on the draw notes. It's playable, but it's far more work than it should be, and it's difficult to make the notes sound at something approximating equal loudness when some of them want to come out as more of a wheeze than a clear tone. To be fair, the Blues Harp doesn't leak as much as some Chinese harmonicas, such as the Hohner Blues Bands (which leak like screen doors). But other (non-Chinese) harmonicas manage to leak far less - my Seydel Blues Session and Suzuki Promaster leak only slightly, my Lee Oskar doesn't leak at all. Even other German-made Hohners such as the Special 20 leak far less than the Blues Harp.