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A - Autograph
GC - Gutmann's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FE3 - Corrected impression of FE2
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
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  b. 13

The bottom note of the second chord in the R.H. was certainly corrected in GC from d1 to e1. It is hard to state clearly whether it is Gutmann's own correction or whether it was Chopin that noticed and corrected the wrong pitch while reviewing GC. Similar ambiguities resulting from corrected pitches of some notes appear repeatedly in the entire Ballade, yet in the majority of cases it is possible to determine what the original pitch was and to which one it was corrected. In some places the ambiguous pitch of a note in GC was misinterpreted and copied to GE.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Inaccuracies in GC, Alterations in GC

notation: Pitch

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Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris