First of all, thanks for all the advice that got me this far with my first attempt at bridge repair. Presently the piano is tipped on its back, clamped and drying. I was able to get the piece that broke off back in place, but I can still see where the crack was. (It cracked right along the row of bridge pins.) Right now it looks like many other old bridges, with tiny cracks emanating laterally from the bridge pins, which I inserted into their holes while the epoxy was still unhardened. Examining the rest of the bridge (the unseparated, uncracked part) reveals similar tiny cracks by each bridge pin, so I thought while it's tipped on its back I would CA glue the rest of the bridge. And since the newly epoxied part of the bridge has the same kind of cracks, I wonder if CAing those cracks might help firm up the repair, but I'm afraid that the CA glue might react with the epoxy. Maybe it's unneeded. Perhaps with the bridge pins seated in the epoxy they might not be loose, even with the tiny cracks there... I don't know. Should I just leave it alone? Any more advice? I go back on Tuesday to restring it and find out if it holds. Thanks, Tom Sivak
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