Piano Urns

These piano cremation urns are for the person who practiced in an empty house, the teacher whose lessons are carried by students for decades, and the one whose instrument anchored the family room. We offer two-tone engraving of names and dates as an option for these cast aluminum pieces, which are available in full-size, sharing, and keepsake sizes. Each urn features an engraved piano and comes in painted colors or hand-applied enamel with silver bands. This collection honors the melodies that remain in the room long after the music has ended.

A piano is a piece of furniture that makes sound. It is often the largest presence in a room, a steady fixture around which a household arranges itself for many decades. For the person who spent many hours practicing when the house was empty, or the one who performed for a small circle of relatives in a warm room, the instrument was a constant. It was a presence that could not be put away, a central part of the home's landscape.

Most of the work happens in solitude, in unwitnessed practice sessions that build a lifetime of skill. This is for the person who found their voice through those quiet hours, making music even when no one was watching. It honors the discipline of the practice and the quiet strength of the person behind the keys.

To teach is to live a different kind of life. It is a commitment made in half hour increments with children who might have preferred to be playing outside, repeated until those students eventually become musicians themselves. A teacher who gave thirty years to their students is carried around in the hands of everyone they taught, a legacy that lives on through every note played.

These pieces are cast aluminum, available in a range of painted colors or in a hand-applied enamel finish with hand-detailed silver bands. Each urn is engraved with the image of a piano, a design chosen by families who can still hear the specific piece their loved one always opened with. Every urn is finished with a threaded screw-top lid and a felt base.

Because every family has different needs, the collection includes full-size, sharing, and keepsake sizes. This allows for a single piece or several pieces to be chosen, ensuring the memory remains accessible to everyone. We can also engrave a name and dates directly into the surface as a two-tone engraving.

Bartolomeo Cristofori, the keeper of instruments at the Medici court in Florence, built the first piano around 1700. His breakthrough was a hammer action that let a keyboard play both soft and loud depending on how the key was struck. This capability is what the instrument's full name, the pianoforte, describes.

For a family, the design on the urn is the piano still standing in the front room, and the piece the person always opened with.

Source: Wikipedia, Bartolomeo Cristofori

If the person lived with that same quiet discipline in private, the steady patience of a lifelong teacher, or the piano still standing in the family's front room, this design will read as theirs. The choice of this piece rests with your own memories of them.

Families will picture the piano in the front room and hear the first notes of the song they always played to begin.

Our guide to selecting the right size urn