Music Urns

This collection is for the person who always had music playing, from the songs they sang in the car to the melodies that filled every room. These cast aluminum urns feature five engraved designs: a music note, a harmonica, a hand holding a microphone, or an electric guitar, including one with flowers. Available in full-size, sharing, and keepsake sizes, each urn comes in painted or hand-applied enamel finishes. We can engrave a name and dates directly onto the surface using a two-tone technique.

These pieces honor the personal songs that once filled a home and continue to move those who listen.

For some, a home is never truly quiet because music was always there, drifting from a radio or a practiced instrument. It was the constant presence in every room, a backdrop to the day that never quite ceased. You might remember them as the person who always had something playing, whether it was the songs they sang loudly in the car or the melodies that simply lived in the background of their daily life.

Music is perhaps the most personal of all possessions, a reflection of an individual's private taste that was never meant for anyone else. What they played, what they listened to, and what they sang were entirely their own. Because of this, certain songs can still stop you where you stand. A melody heard in a supermarket or a song playing in a waiting room can suddenly take you somewhere else, pulling you back to the time you shared with them.

This collection honors that rhythm through five engraved designs: a music note, a harmonica, a hand holding a microphone, an electric guitar, or an electric guitar adorned with flowers. Each piece is cast in aluminum and finished with care, whether in a solid painted color or a hand-applied enamel with detailed silver bands. These symbols act as a quiet tribute to the sounds they loved most.

Because families carry these memories differently, we offer these pieces in full-size, sharing, and keepsake sizes. This allows a family to choose a single piece to hold their memory or several pieces to be distributed among those they love, ensuring their song remains part of the family.

To make the memorial even more personal, we can engrave a name and dates directly into the surface. This two-tone engraving becomes a permanent part of the piece, adding their name to the music they left behind.

Until 1877, music could not be kept. In that year, Thomas Edison built a machine that recorded sound onto tinfoil wrapped around a cylinder and played it back, with the first recording being a recitation of "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

Everything since follows from that: the idea that a performance, and a voice, could outlast the moment it happened in. For a family, the design on the urn is the music the person filled the house with, and the songs that still belong to them.

Source: Wikipedia, Phonograph

If the person was someone defined by a constant melody and a voice raised in song during a car ride, then these engravings will recall that spirit.

Families often select these designs because music was the way they filled a home, and because those specific songs still have the power to halt a moment. You will see the dashboard of a car and picture them singing along to a favorite melody.

Our guide to selecting the right size urn