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Two things may be making it stiff: lack of aritightness and reed adjustment. I think Kinya can give a much more thotough answer, but if you can ptry the covers off, I'd look at the gapping on the draw reeds to see if they're higher or lower than on another harp in the same key that plays well. Too low and they'll choke easily. Too high and they'll take too much air to play.
One problem with the nailed-together traditional MB is that the nailed construction doesn't make it soe easy to pop the reedplates off the comb and work on the reeds or on the comb itself.
Airtightness is affected by the comb-to-reedplate seal and by how close the edges of the slots are to the reeds. That opens up a whole set of tweak you can do.
You might call Hohner and ask for warranty work if it doesn't play properly.