As baekaeli said, the best place to get guitars and related equipment is Xin Jie Kou.

Take the subway (line 2) to Ji Shui Tan. Exit the subway at exit B, the southeast exit, and walk south. After roughly 3/4 kilometer you'll come to a place where every shop around is a guitar shop.

Make sure to check out many stores. Some are really good but a lot are just as crappy as the random guitar stores around beijing.

Hi,

I'm currently in Beijing and would love to know the contact details of your friend with the replica guitar shop and location, I'm keen to buy a Les Paul or SG look alike that I can modify myself to include a Wah Wah pedal like Matt Bellamy from Muse and to cannibalize an original with my level of technical skill would be sacrilege.

Thanks

Al

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Hello to everybody!

I'll be in BJ the next 2 weeks and read about that xin jie kou is the place to have a look for guitars and music stuff.

Could anybody tell me exact names and addresses of shops that keep genuine E-Guitars in stock?

I just had a look to g**gle m*ps and found out about ""Step up to Music Heaven" store near to Temple of Heaven and "HengYun Music Instruments" in South street.

Are there any others to recommend?

Thanks in advance!!

Thought I'd share my experiences in buying a couple of acoustics recently. I can't tell you exactly where to go with contact info, but I can tell you where not to go.

There's a smattering of instrument shops South of Hepingmen subway station owned by the same guy, and he and his staff are straight up cheats. Avoid the area. I don't know if he has shops elsewhere, or if he would use the same name, but the one I found him at had "Tianshi Music" on the business card.

Also, be careful of the Chinese brand 'Legpap'. They build laminates to look convincingly like solid tops, which help the (sadly numerous) dishonest shopkeepers screw people. They aren't badly constructed for cheap guitars, but they aren't sold as cheap guitars.

I had pretty good luck in Xinjiekou, but you still need to keep your eyes open. I had shopkeepers presenting laminates to me as solid tops there, in addition to the usual skin tax.

A cheap but not too bad classical guitar should be about 600 RMB. Ukulele Is around 500 RMB.

yes, as others said Xinjiekou is full with guitar shops, if u take the subway to Xinjiekou station, exit B (line 4), follow the road to the left, then turn right when u reach the end (about 3-5 minutes), and a bit further you will start to see one after the other...

Excellent read, I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing a little research on this topic.
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As usual I stand by the point that if you buy a musical instrument or equipment, get something half decent by a well known brand. YAMAHA is an excellent point of reference and they make very little if anything at all that isn't musically useful.

Liulichang is a great place for picking up trad instruments plus yukeleles etc.. not the touristy oldy worldy part but the main road going north south, its lined with music shops.