Kux/Castelbarco Viola - BRIT052 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 Kux/Castelbarco viola is housed at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England. Source location of the wood is unknown, but most likely the Italian Alps. COFECHA output: Chronology file name : BRIT052.CRN Measurement file name : BRIT052.RWL Date checked : 10MAR05 Checked by : H. ADAMS AND J. LUKAS Beginning year : 1559 Ending year : 1683 Principal investigators: Henri D. Grissino-Mayer Paul R. Sheppard Malcolm K. Cleaveland Site name : Kux/Castelbarco Viola Site location : UK Species information : PCAB NORWAY SPRUCE Latitude : +5131 Longitude : -00010 Elevation : 0M Series intercorrelation: 0.724 Avg mean sensitivity : 0.143 Avg standard deviation : 0.454 Avg autocorrelation : 0.937 Number dated series : 2 Segment length tested : 50 Number problem segments: 0 Pct problem segments : 0.00 PART 5: CORRELATION OF SERIES BY SEGMENTS: brit052.rwl 16:57 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 1550 1575 1600 1625 1650 1599 1624 1649 1674 1699 --- -------- --------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 1 pkuxt 1559 1683 .75 .75 .76 .75 .67 2 pkuxb 1560 1682 .75 .75 .76 .75 .67 Av segment correlation .75 .75 .76 .75 .67 PART 7: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: brit052.rwl 16:57 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 pkuxt 1559 1683 125 5 0 .724 .95 2.39 .465 .934 .143 2.66 .539 -.016 2 2 pkuxb 1560 1682 123 5 0 .724 .96 2.30 .442 .940 .143 2.65 .487 -.036 1 --- -------- --------- ----- ----- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -- Total or mean: 248 10 0 .724 .96 2.39 .454 .937 .143 2.66 .514 -.026