> As Ric B pointed out, the strings are lifting well off the bridge cap - > clearly the bridge cap is too low (I hadn't noticed that originally). Not clearly any such thing. Note the wood split out between bridge pins in the top photo. The split out pieces are wedged above the bridge top, courtesy of the pin angle, and lifting the strings with them. I've seen a bunch of bass bridges do this very thing through the years. > Probably not going to get around putting a new cap on it. If it weren't > for that, I agree, oodles of great things can be done with epoxy! Since the cap likely isn't all that low (or if it is, the soundboard's trashed anyway), epoxy could probably fix it. But that wouldn't do anything for the offset angle. If it was a field repair in the piano, I'd probably epoxy it. since it would take another trip (or two, since I don't carry a tilter), it would cost nearly what recapping would anyway. The bridge is already out of the piano, so tooling isn't a problem for recapping. It's a matter of whether you want to spend a couple of bucks and an hour and a half making a new cap, or epoxying the old one and cleaning up afterward. Ron N
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