About us

Ad Lignum is a house of discernment based in Seville, Spain. We exist to choose what deserves to stay. We work with trusted luthiers and treat every piece as what it is: a living body that, given time and patience, begins to speak with its own voice. We believe in classical elegance, because what is essential endures. We look for that first note that wakes the musician and reminds them why they began.

Our work is to curate with rigor and sensitivity: to listen, to play, to compare, and then to decide. We choose pieces that move you from the first moment and grow with the musician over the years. We are guided by a quality that is hard to define and easy to recognize when it appears: character.

We take care of everything that accompanies a musician throughout their musical life. From the instrument resting in their hands to the details that support them in rehearsal, on stage and in the city. We select what brings nuance and personality, what turns an instrument into your instrument and your everyday life into a space of your own.

Before we offer anything, we listen to it, we play it and we give it time. We pay attention to the signs that separate what is merely correct from what is truly excellent. Only then does it belong to Ad Lignum. And when it reaches its owner, it arrives ready for a long relationship of study, discovery and music.

Ad Lignum exists for those who live their lives around music and value work done properly and good taste that does not go out of style. Our commitment is simple and demanding at the same time: to choose with discernment, to deliver with seriousness and care, and to stand by the musician with the same attention we bring to every selection. Music deserves instruments that honor it, and musicians who see in what they choose the best version of themselves.