Cracked Bridge-New Baldwin Console-Need Advice

[Farrell]

A picture is worth a thousand words - or more! Got one? Hard to imagine that 
a five year old piano would be DOA from a crack in a bridge - but who knows 
(without a picture).

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
> 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