I've repaired a few violins, none of them expensive or valuable. One of them I had gotten at Goodwill for $20 or so with a couple cracks in the top. Popping t

I've repaired a few violins, none of them expensive or valuable. One of them I had gotten at Goodwill for $20 or so with a couple cracks in the top. Popping the top off of the violin was a little nerve-wracking, but that cracking-hide-glue sound is also satisfying. It went back together nicely (I even used the opportunity to glue a piezo-film transducer to the inside of the soundboard). Now I don't feel quite so much like the violin I'm holding is going to shatter into a million pieces if I twist too hard on a tuning peg.