Hard Rock Cafe Shanghai ( two pins)

Above there is a pin from the Shanghai Hard Rock Cafe and it represents a blue guitar with a red and yellow dragon flying over the cityscape. Its estimated average value is $10.56.

This is other Shanghai Hard Rock Cafe pin (1998) and it represents a yellow and black doubleneck guitar. Its estimated average value is $15.43.

 

The Shanghai Hard Rock Cafe was one of the most important asian HRC, but unfortunately closed on March 2004. Here some photos:

Shanghai is the largest city in the People's Republic of China and it is also the China's largest commercial and financial center. Here there are some photos from this chinese city:

Hard Rock Cafe Taipei (2)

This is other HRC pin from Taipei. It represents a green large round Yueh-Chin guitar. Its estimated average value is $21.00. Its a rare pin from a two series collection of this traditional asian guitars.

The yueqin (or yueh qin, or yueh chin) is the Chinese "moon-guitar" and looks quite similar to the ruan. For the different yueqin from Taiwan see under.

The body of the yueqin is made from 2 round pieces of soft wood of about 30 cm diameter, for front and back, with a shallow rim of bended hardwood around them (thinner than the ruan). The short neck with the pegbox is made of one piece of wood and joined to the body. The peghead is sickle-shaped and ends in a curl to the front, with usually a special decoration of different woods. 

The (10) frets are small strips of bamboo, glued on the neck and front, in a Chinese scale (7 to an octave). Tuning is g d' g' d''.

The 4 long (grooved) friction pegs (with different coloured slices on the ends) are on both sides of the open pegbox. The 4 silk (or nylon) strings are in 2 courses and fixed to a (half round) hardwood bridge which is glued to the front. There is only one tiny sound hole under the bridge.

The yueqin is played with a plectrum, in mandolin-style.

Hard Rock Cafe Taipei (1)

This is a Hard Rock Cafe Pin from Taipei HRC, closed on February 2002. It represents a golden dragon and an acoustic guitar. Its estimatad average value is $50.00

Here  some Taiwan photos.