I have played most classic Hohner harmonica models. This is my first Lee Oskar. I bought it for the fairly unique tuning. It's more responsive than Special 20 and it's responsive and gives a similar feel overall to my Blues Harp. It's a bit limited in terms of what genres you can effectively play on it. I love to jam some Scandinavian or Eastern European folk sounding minor key tunes on it, or tunes that I can only describe as "jazzy", despite the fact that I hate to listen to jazz and I never play anything but the most melodious classics from the Jazz genre. This harmonica is inspiring!