I ordered 3 harmonicas to test the differences. This one, the plastic Halilit one and the tiny key chain one. This is obviously the best one - Stagg make good jobbing instruments of all sorts which are as cheap as they can be and have the minimal best quality for the price. This means that this harmonica works reasonably well for the price. It's slightly out of tune but not too noticeably and I suspect if you tried out a few, you would find one that's better. Blues harmonicas are supposed to have notes you can bend and this one does do the blues thing and bends the notes and it sounds reasonably ok. Not a big volume. Comes in a nice case with a piece of tissue papare round it. I will be using these with 3 + 4 year olds on mass! One thing though - I got this one for £3. 34 so I don't know why it's gone by 57p in just a few days...