Musical Instruments
1970s British Post-Modern Vintage Musical Instruments
Acrylic
1970s French Vintage Musical Instruments
Plastic
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Musical Instruments
Chrome
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Musical Instruments
Metal
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Musical Instruments
Plastic
20th Century American Folk Art Musical Instruments
Organic Material
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Musical Instruments
Plastic
1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Musical Instruments
Plastic, Wood
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Musical Instruments
Wood
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Musical Instruments
Wood
20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Musical Instruments
Bakelite
1980s Japanese Industrial Vintage Musical Instruments
Brass, Bronze
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Musical Instruments
Glass, Bakelite, Wood
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Musical Instruments
PVC
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Musical Instruments
Acrylic
1870s French Classical Roman Antique Musical Instruments
Paper
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.