Perhaps the best looking harmonica made today, the Cross Harp is just a regular diatonic harmonica - it offers no particular advantage for playing in Cross Harp. It is, however, a nice instrument! Hohner is so proud of the Cross harp's reed plates and reeds that they made them the official replacement reed plates for the whole MS series which includes the Big River, the Blues Harp, the Pro Harp, the Cross Harp, and the Meisterklasse. The reed plates are recessed down into the gold plastic comb for a more airtight seal, and the cover plates are labeled in gold and finished in black for long lasting beauty.