Modelling wooden cultural heritage. The need to consider each artefact as unique as illustrated by the Cannone violin

Heritage Science

Table 1 The violin parts involved in the modelling and their physical and geometrical properties

Violin elements	Wood species (orientation)	Surface^* (mm²) × thickness (mm)	Density (kg m⁻³)	Mass^** (g)
References	[24]	[24]	[26]
Sound board	Spruce Picea abies L. Radial sawing Tangential diffusion	51.450 × 3.10	370	59.0
Ribs	Sycamore maple Acer pseudoplatanus L. Radial sawing Tangential diffusion	32.134 × 1.15	587	21.7
Back face	Sycamore maple Acer pseudoplatanus L. Radial sawing Tangential diffusion	52.085 × 4.40	587	134.6
	Violin mass exchanging water (g)			215.3
	Violin total mass (g)			436.6
	Violin mass not exchanging water (g)			221.3

^*Exchanging surface with environment. ^**The masses are relative to the conservation conditions of 54% of relative humidity and 21 °C, corresponding to about 10% of moisture content