Each of the three source versions of the range of the 
sign may correspond to Chopin's intention. According to us, the sign has a nature of a long accent, emphasising both the dynamic relation of the delay of d
2 and its resolution c2. Therefore, in the main text we give a sign on the basis of FE, which presents this double sense in the clearest manner. The absence of a hairpin in GE is certainly a result of an oversight (cf. the note on the tie).
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Long accents, Scope of dynamic hairpins, Errors in GE
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins