Music Store in Hong Kong For Ruans

[stacote]

My wife is going to Hong Kong for family matters in February and I'd like her to pick me up a new Ruan. Probably a Xiaoruan or maybe another Zhongruan as mine is a modestly priced one, is well loved and maybe should be retired. Anyway, can anyone suggest a music store that sells higher quality traditional instruments? I found Harmony Music on line, which seems good, but just wondering if there are others. Thank you for any hints. I appreciate any suggestions.

[edcat7]

Hi stacote,

where abouts are you from? My wife is also going to HK within the next couple of months and I've asked her to get me a dim sum rolling pin. Although she's been to Shanghai Street often and we have photos of the rolling pin we're still not confident she will get it right.

Buying a musical instrument is even more difficult. I suggest your wife takes a stop-over in Singapore and buy from Easons. Choose a SGN, they're the best and I'm very happy with mine.

Ed

[stacote]

Hi Ed, I think we know each other for a few guitar sites too. I'm on the West coast of Canada. I might just order from Eason online instead of putting my wife through the trouble. She grew up in Hong Kong but hasn't been back in 20 years or so. I've been doing some online searching of the music store selection in Hong Kong and it seems that there's not as much of a selection as I expected. Lots of western music stores, Tom Lee and so on. The family apartment is a couple blocks from Harmony Music, which has a good selection of Chinese instruments, so I thought that might be a good bet. We will see.

[edcat7]

Oh yes Scot I remember you well now! Perhaps you should make your own when you have the time.

Ed

[stacote]

Yea, I thought about it but I'm up to my eyeball in Portuguese ukuleles and Russian guitars at the moment. But I also like to play other peoples instruments also.