Eco-Friendly Gift Ideas for Music Lovers

For the musically-inclined person in your life, traditional gifts like vinyl records, instrument accessories and concert tickets can sometimes come with an environmental impact. But luckily, there are many creative eco-friendly gift options available now for music fans and musicians alike.

From sustainable instruments to planet-friendly music merch, you can excite any music lover’s passions while keeping principles of reuse, recycling and ethical manufacturing in mind.

Eco-Friendly Instruments and Accessories

For the aspiring or seasoned musician, considerate and environmentally-conscious gear makes an incredibly thoughtful gift. Many musical instruments and accessories are now being crafted from recycled, renewable and earth-friendly materials – without sacrificing quality or playability.

Here are some standout options:

Guitars, Basses and Folk Instruments
• Blackbird Guitars’ eco-conscious models made from renewable materials like linen and certified wood.
• Vintage‘s line of guitars built from repurposed materials and reclaimed wood.
• Fender‘s recycled wood bodies and guitars assembled from sustainable bamboo.
• Revival Drums‘ upcycled stave snares using reclaimed oak wine and whiskey barrel wood.

Piano and Keyboard Alternatives
• The Roli Seaboard uses a unique silicon surface made from recycled materials.
• The Gamerama wooden finger piano handcrafted from bamboo and recycled wood.
• The PliéWood sustainable wood keyboards built using repurposed oak.

Wind and Brass Instruments
• Guo woodwind instruments built from recyclable and renewable grenadilla wood.
• Miraphone‘s “Greenline” of brass instruments with lead-free lacquers and renewable materials.
• Wind instruments from Forestone made using organic cassia wood.

Straps, Picks and Accessories
• Path recycled guitar picks and straps made from post-industrial plastics.
• Bamboo guitar picks and slides from Riversong.
• D’Addario ‘s bamboo-based strings and organic accessories like rosin.

Musical Lifestyle Products and Home Goods

Beyond instruments and gear, modern music lovers would adore home goods, lifestyle products and fashions made more sustainably. For an eco-friendly gift with style, consider:

Apparel and Accessories
• Wasted Shirt’s music apparel line printed on repurposed band merchandise.
• Graphs + Music’s scarves and sarongs made from recycled materials.
• Recoil Threads’ screen-printed patches and pins using recycled metals.
• Freedom Moses‘ recycled microplastic vegan leather accessories and bags.

Home Decor
• Reclaimed wood headphone stands and record holders.
• Wooden wall décor made from sustainably harvested maple.
• Resin side tables featuring embedded thrifted vinyl records.
• Eco candleholders and catchalls cut from recycled old vinyl records.

Speakers and Audio Equipment
• Transparent Speaker recycled PET plastic speaker components.
• HELM Audio‘s line of speakers made out of recycled wood.
• Wooden ceramic boomboxes and radios from Vitsoe.
• The House of Marley‘s speakers and turntables from eco bamboo and recycled plastics.

Music-Inspired Art and Collectibles
• Concert posters printed using soy-based inks on recycled materials.
• Reclaimed wood guitar string artwork.
• Recycled aluminum statuettes and music figurines.

Environmentally-Friendly Vinyl

For the vinyl collector, sustainable records allow them to indulge their analog obsession without the guilt.

Find albums pressed on recycled vinyl bioplastics like:

• Clouds Hill Recordings‘ vegan eco-vinyl pressings for their bands.
• Vegan cornstarch-derived eco-vinyl records in wildly creative colors.
• Eco-Vinyl mastered from renewable power sources.

Cassette Tapes
• Refillable, reusable cassette tapes with recycled paper and bioplastic casings.
• Bandcamp artists offering sustainably packaged cassette tape releases of their music.

Subscriptions and Memberships

Give the gift of sustainability through eco-friendly subscription boxes and memberships made for music fans, like:

• Vinyl Me, Please‘s record of the month club featuring recycled vinyl pressings.
• Sustainable bamboo bong subscription club for music festivals and shows.
• Annual music streaming memberships that avoid plastic waste from CDs and records.
• Membership passes for locally-organized record swap meets and conventions.
• Ticket subscriptions to eco-conscious concert tours and music festivals.

With some creativity, you can thoughtfully indulge any music lover’s passion while prioritizing environmental principles. Sustainable instruments and accessories, ethically produced vinyl, eco-friendly audio gear, recycled home goods and much more now provide plenty of gift options to satisfy the musically-inclined in an eco-minded way.