I have a Breedlove Quartz KF that I picked up for a super deal many years ago that I absolutely love.
It has a tailpiece like this:
https://www.stewmac.com/globalassets...-rn-2-2700.jpg
So here's the dumb question: What are those extra four sideways hooks at the back of the tailpiece for? when I originally received the mandolin they were used to hold the highest four courses (so the strings went around the first hook and the loop was secured on the sideways hook). But when I tried to replace strings, they would break pretty easily, which makes sense since it puts an extra unnecessary kink in the string. So what the heck are they really for?