Hi Terry, and others I'm not sure one can say the bridge cap is clearly too low... or not give the little bit of info we really have to go on. The 4 significant ruptures in the bridge surface found in the first picture dont explain why most of the other strings are off the surface in the second picture as well. But still the picture only suggests possibilities. Given the rest of the origional description supplied by Alan, my initial thoughts naturally enough go along the lines of suspecting similiar craftmanship concerning the rest of the piano. Ergo... it would not suprise me at all to find the bridge surface under the string line for --whatever-- reasons. Some of these pianos are put together in amazing (in the negatively loaded sense) fashion. So. I would suggest making sure that there are no ah.... shall we say <<contributing conditions>> such as a collapsed soundboard or one just plain built with reverse crown... or whatever else before bothering to put any time and effort into attempting a repair. If it turns out that you can simply re-cap with a bit more height and all will be well... well heck... I go with the wood workers and would opt away from the epoxy solution... I mean all in all its not any more difficult for such a short bridge.. and probably good practice. On the side... interesting to note on both pictures clear evidence of this being strung wrong for some period of time... notice the second set of string indentations. Also notice the very deep indentations seen at both ends. Clearly this bridge has been <<dealt with>> before. Cheers RicB ------------------- 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). 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! Terry Farrell
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