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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.