Cracked Bridges

[Jon Page]

New bridge cap and possibly the body if epoxy will not fill the gap
once the cap is routed off.   Consider new_bass_strings as well. :-)
Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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At 11:16 PM 8/8/97 -0400, you wrote:
>OK Everybody
>Here's something to mull over -- the bass bridge on a W W Kimball studio
>circa 1938 has a large crack running diagonally across it as well as
>having a number of bridgepins blown out so there is no sidebearing at
>the treble end of the bridge.  The diagonal crack is a single crack
>(instead of multiple cracks) about 1/8" wide and close to an inch deep.
>Does anybody have any good, cost-effective ideas about how to repair
>this short of replacing the entire bridge?  Please keep in mind that
>this piano is of great sentimental value to the customer.
>
>Jan Otto and Zen Reinhardt
>jano@provide.net and diskladame@provide.net
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