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Stradivari, violins, tree rings, and the Maunder Minimum: a hypothesis

L. Burckle, H. D. Grissino-Mayer, 2003. Dendrochronologia 21, 41–45.

Proposes that slow, even growth of Alpine spruce in the cold Maunder Minimum gave Cremonese makers unusually uniform wood.

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The climate hypothesis for the wood.

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Burckle, L., & Grissino-Mayer, H. D. (2003). Stradivari, violins, tree rings, and the Maunder Minimum: a hypothesis. Dendrochronologia 21, 41–45. https://doi.org/10.1078/1125-7865-00033
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