Musical Instruments
2010s Modern Musical Instruments
Wood
1980s Italian Other Vintage Musical Instruments
Sterling Silver
Late 20th Century North American Musical Instruments
Iron
20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Musical Instruments
Stone, Silver, Brass
1890s British Victorian Antique Musical Instruments
Brass
1970s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Musical Instruments
Plastic
Mid-20th Century German Musical Instruments
Brass
1930s Swiss Art Deco Vintage Musical Instruments
Metal
Early 20th Century German Musical Instruments
Brass
1890s British Late Victorian Antique Musical Instruments
Brass
Mid-20th Century American Modern Musical Instruments
Chrome, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Musical Instruments
Carbon Fiber
2010s Danish Bauhaus Musical Instruments
Chrome
Late 19th Century American Regency Antique Musical Instruments
Metal
2010s Danish Bauhaus Musical Instruments
Chrome, Aluminum, Brass
2010s Italian Modern Musical Instruments
Ceramic
2010s Greek Post-Modern Musical Instruments
Steel
Late 20th Century British Colonial Musical Instruments
Plastic
2010s Danish Bauhaus Musical Instruments
Chrome
2010s Danish Bauhaus Musical Instruments
Chrome
Late 19th Century Black Forest Antique Musical Instruments
Iron
20th Century Congolese Tribal Musical Instruments
Animal Skin, Wood
20th Century American Machine Age Musical Instruments
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Musical Instruments
Ceramic
2010s Italian Modern Musical Instruments
Ceramic
1930s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Musical Instruments
Chrome
2010s Italian Modern Musical Instruments
Ceramic
2010s Danish Scandinavian Modern Musical Instruments
Chrome
2010s Italian Modern Musical Instruments
Ceramic
21st Century and Contemporary American Musical Instruments
Paper
2010s Austrian Musical Instruments
Brass
20th Century Unknown Rococo Musical Instruments
Metal
2010s Austrian Musical Instruments
Brass
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Musical Instruments
Chrome
Early 2000s French Musical Instruments
Paper
1660s Antique Musical Instruments
Paper
Mid-20th Century German Musical Instruments
Brass
Mid-19th Century Great Britain (UK) Victorian Antique Musical Instruments
Iron
Early 20th Century German Modern Musical Instruments
Wood
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Musical Instruments
Steel
Early 1900s Swiss Black Forest Antique Musical Instruments
Other
20th Century Gabonese Musical Instruments
Wood
Mid-19th Century British Antique Musical Instruments
Brass
Mid-20th Century Musical Instruments
Metal
19th Century Danish Folk Art Antique Musical Instruments
Wood
Antique and Vintage Musical Instruments
Pay tribute to a history of rich and diverse musical traditions that have taken shape all over the world by decorating your home with a collection of antique and vintage musical instruments.
Whether you’re playing them or merely displaying them, vintage musical instruments, when cared for properly, can be a wonderful addition to any space. At between four and five feet in length, an elegant early-1900s Steinway & Sons baby grand piano will undoubtedly steal the show if you’re thinking of yielding some precious real estate to one of these American classics, but maybe you’re simply shopping for art to warm the bare walls of your new apartment or weekend home.
For your living room, maybe you’ve already hunted down portraits by Gered Mankowitz, a celebrated 1960s-era photographer who spent his life capturing iconic images of music’s biggest stars. If you’ve got more space to work with there — or perhaps you need some entertainment room ideas — consider positioning an old guitar as a focal point. If a room has no distinguishing architectural features, you could create a prominent focal point with trending paint colors, stylish shelving, an arrangement of flowers or by wall-mounting a spectacularly aging early-20th-century guitar or other stringed instrument.
Alternatively, much in the way that you might group a collection of artwork to hang salon-style, with a little help from strong hanging wire or some wall hooks, vintage brass instruments such as a gong, French horn or trumpet can help elevate a home office or complement the efforts you’ve made to ensure a welcoming vibe in your home’s entryway. Bells or antique wind instruments can add provocative metallic contrasts to dark woods as tabletop decorative objects. Think of them as eye-catching ornamental flourishes that you can bring to end tables in a common area, to the top of a desk or to a mid-century storage cabinet.
Bring culture and creativity into your space with decades-old plywood tabletop radios or musical instruments from all over the world — be they drums from Africa or harps from France. Even if you’re not exactly getting the band back together, we can promise that the range of antique and vintage instruments on 1stDibs can help strike a meaningful chord in your interior design plan.