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Table 2 The statistical tests refer to the year 1694 (based on the first dendrochronological measurement taken from the photo sent via social media)

From: A Guarneri violin in the attic: the power of dendrochronology for analysing musical instruments

Reference chronologies

Region

TBP

THO

Glk

MI03 (unpublished)

Various

5.73

7.00

68.90***

Bernabei and Bontadi (2011)

Paneveggio (Italy)

5.19

5.53

67.10***

AMC01 (Bernabei et al., 2010)

Master of Accademia

5.02

6.07

70.70***

Bernabei et al. (2018)

Trentino (Italy)

4.46

4.73

64.60**

MST (Bernabei et al., 2017)

Master of Museum of Trieste

3.45

4.23

68.30***

svit169

Simmenthal (Switzerland)

3.65

3.73

63.40**

Kerner

Ötztal

3.08

3.16

62.80*

ital022

Tuscany (Italy)

2.35

3.98

61.60*

svit173

Obersaxen (Switzerland)

2.39

2.92

63.40**

  1. Overlap: 82 rings. TBP: Student’s t-test adapted from Baillie and Pilcher; THO: Student’s t-test adapted from Hollstein; Glk: Gleichläufigkeit, represents the percentage of agreement between the growth sign (+ or −) from 1 year to the next; *, **, and ***: statistical significance of Glk at confidence levels 95.0%, 99.0% and 99.9%