<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>You folks got it;  what looks like a bichord at the bridge is really the highest string of one unison paired with the lowest string of the next highest unison. </div><div><br></div><div>I speculate that they laid out the bridge from the top down, and accidentally added one extra bridge pin at the bottom of the trichords. </div><div><br></div><div>You can see the odd string spacing at the bichord wedge dampers. </div><div>Thanks for participating!</div><div><br></div><div>Joe DeFazio</div><div>Pittsburgh</div><div><br></div><div>P.S. - sounded fairly typical despite the odd spacing....</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>It looks like there are 6 bass triples from the looks of the tuning pins.  Then, down at the bridge, it looks like there are 6 triples plus one string.   Where'd that extra string come from?</span><br><span></span><br><span>Or, maybe it's my eyes playing tricks on me.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Cliff Lesher</span><br><span>Winfield, PA</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><font color="black" size="2" face="arial"> <div>Joe,</div> <div> </div> <div>These strings are not parallel.  They appear to diverge or flare pretty dramatically.  If you carefully count the strings from right to left on the bass bridge, what looks to be a "bichord" passing over the bridge is actually the treble-most string of the last bichord right up next to the bass-most string of the first trichord.</div> <div> </div> <div>Is that the answer to the puzzler?</div> <div> </div> <div>Chris</div></font></div></blockquote></body></html>