The pencil marks visible in those bars in FES are difficult to interpret. They may even have no meaning at all, but merely be pencil traces underlining verbally given explanations. The list below is therefore not a serious attempt at their interpretation but an exercise in matching some sensible explanations to those entries:
- a single line in bar 9 seems to relate to pedalling; perhaps it meant to signify a longer depression of the pedal.
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lines in bar 10 might be combined to form a single mark - possibly a
, which would be quite a propos here. - a small line next to g in bar 11 could mean deletion of that note, possibly because of Miss Sterling's small hand.
- if we perceive a digit '2' in the sign in bar 12, this would indicate the use of the left pedal (we come across such notation several times in Chopin's teaching copies).
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category imprint: Source & stylistic information
issues: Annotations in teaching copies, Annotations in FES
notation: Pedalling