One of Cheer's acoustic guitar is the very striking Gibson Hummingbird. Usually, she will use this axe for performance. Gibson is like the Ferrari of guitar and Hummingbird is one of top line acoustic guitar under its family. You will need to invest around US$3800 to 5000 (withHardcase) for a current model. Many Taiwan artists I see use Taylor (one of my favorite) or Martin acoustics guitar... Well, it all comes to personal choice of the guitarist. Some of the ultra famous guitarist like Keith Richards (Rolling Stone) use the Hummingbird extensively as well as The Edge & Bono (U2).
Price List as of March 2007 (Singapore)
GIBSON HUMMINGBIRD GUITAR W/CASE, HRTCHRSBRS, NICKEL HDWE US$3800
GIBSON HUMMINGBIRD KOA,HONEYBURST, W/CASE (CUSTOM SHOP MODEL)US$5000
The tonality of a Gibson Hummingbird is exceptional. It is primarily crafted using Honduran Mahogany for the back, sides & neck. The guitar also combine other tone woods to work its wonderful sound. It also incorporate a very distinctive fret inlay design : Mother of Pearl Parallelograms.
I believe Cheer acquired her Hummingbird ever since she signed with Monster Stone Records in 1998-ish. There is a bit of story on her Hummingbird which I'm trying to confirm. She would usually tune it to a Standard D (1 whole step down from Standard E tuning). If she need to sing songs like "Travel is Meaningful"/ "旅行的意義", she will use her Golden Kyser Quick Change capo on the 2nd Fret to get back to Standard E.
In the picture above, her Kyser Capo is clipped at headstock. She is taking out her white pick.