A dendrochronological investigation of stringed instruments from the collection of the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence, Italy

摘要: A total of forty-nine stringed instruments the Conservatory Cherubini collection, at Musical Instruments Department Accademia Gallery in Florence, were submitted to a dendrochronological investigation order date them, check validity their attribution and find out more about construction characteristics. Thirty-seven successfully dated, thereby determining terminus post quem manufacture. The correlation values statistical cross-dating tests generally very high. analyses determined which had been made from wood same provenance and, some cases, tree trunk. mean chronology built musical instrument series, named “Accademia Master Chronology”, is 558 years long dates 1396 1953AD. interval between youngest ring dated dendrochronologically given manufacture increased constantly course centuries, value just over eleven for eighteenth century, nearly 74 twentieth when use old other artefacts became frequent. Furthermore, Collection, average rings on violins are smaller than those instruments; fact, they increase proportion size widest cello double bass.