Cracked Bridge-New Baldwin Console-Need Advice

[Greg Livingston]

Dear Friends,
A customer has a 5 year old Baldwin console with a crack about 12 inches 
long in the treble bridge, big enough to stick a business card in.  The 
piano sounds like hitting a marimba with a timpani stick.  The owner wants 
to replace it.  I'm new at this and don't do shopwork- and I understand that 
none of you can diagnose a pian on line- but do you think I could somehow 
get some CA between the strings, into the crack, and drill a hole through 
the bridge/soundboard and put in a nut and bolt?  I thought, if it's going 
to be replaced, I might as well learn something.

(It was seen by a friend of mine who does extensive rebuilding and 
proclaimed the PSO to be DOA)

Any suggestions are sincerely appreciated.  Thanks,
Greg Livingston
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Gregory P. Livingston, Piano Tuning and Service
781-237-9178
Piano Technicians Guild, associate member
(Boston chapter)

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