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The Marine Band, first made in 1896, is the world's best selling harmonica. It has traditional nailed reed plates on a wooden comb. The extra holes in the 12 and 14 hole models increase the playing range. The exciting SBS tuning on the 14 hole version was developed by Steve Baker, the famous player and Hohner's consultant for diatonic harmonicas. It is based on a fourteen hole Marine Band, and was developed with the intention of extending the range of bendable draw notes, it has an extra three at the lower end, and one at the high end, compared with a standadard ten hole diatonic.