Messiah Violin - BRIT050 Additional Information Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, Paul R. Sheppard, and Malcolm K. Cleaveland Standardization: Smoothing spline fixed N Purpose of collection: Archaeology Reference: Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, Paul R. Sheppard, and Malcolm K. Cleaveland 2003, in press. A dendroarchaeological re-examination of the “Messiah” violin and other instruments attributed to Antonio Stradivari. Journal of Archaeological Science. The authors wish to thank the Violin Society of America for assistance in this study. The Messiah violin is housed in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England. Source location of the wood is unknown, but most likely the Italian Alps. COFECHA output: Chronology file name : BRIT050.CRN Measurement file name : BRIT050.RWL Date checked : 10MAR05 Checked by : H. ADAMS AND J. LUKAS Beginning year : 1578 Ending year : 1686 Principal investigators: Henri D. Grissino-Mayer Paul R. Sheppard Malcolm K. Cleaveland Site name : Messiah Violin Site location : UK Species information : PCAB NORWAY SPRUCE Latitude : +5143 Longitude : -00110 Elevation : 0M Series intercorrelation: 0.807 Avg mean sensitivity : 0.131 Avg standard deviation : 0.491 Avg autocorrelation : 0.945 Number dated series : 4 Segment length tested : 50 Number problem segments: 0 Pct problem segments : 0.00 PART 5: CORRELATION OF SERIES BY SEGMENTS: brit050.rwl 16:55 Thu 10 Mar 2005 Page 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Correlations of 50-year dated segments, lagged 25 years Flags: A = correlation under .3281 but highest as dated; B = correlation higher at other than dated position Seq Series Time_span 1575 1600 1625 1650 1624 1649 1674 1699 --- -------- --------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 1 hmesst 1578 1674 .76 .81 .81 2 pmesst 1578 1674 .85 .88 .85 3 hmessb 1588 1686 .87 .84 .80 .80 4 pmessb 1588 1685 .84 .83 .83 .82 Av segment correlation .83 .84 .82 .81 PART 7: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: brit050.rwl 16:55 Thu 10 Mar 2005 Page 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Corr //-------- Unfiltered --------\\ //---- Filtered -----\\ No. No. No. with Mean Max Std Auto Mean Max Std Auto AR Seq Series Interval Years Segmt Flags Master msmt msmt dev corr sens value dev corr () --- -------- --------- ----- ----- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -- 1 hmesst 1578 1674 97 3 0 .768 1.03 2.47 .529 .948 .134 2.66 .471 -.044 1 2 pmesst 1578 1674 97 3 0 .826 1.03 2.44 .528 .952 .120 2.61 .443 -.089 1 3 hmessb 1588 1686 99 4 0 .812 1.04 1.98 .458 .939 .133 2.70 .468 -.091 1 4 pmessb 1588 1685 98 4 0 .822 1.04 2.03 .451 .941 .139 2.63 .487 -.068 1 --- -------- --------- ----- ----- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -- Total or mean: 391 14 0 .807 1.04 2.47 .491 .945 .131 2.70 .467 -.073