It is problematic to assess the range of the 
hairpin entered into FES most probably by Chopin – the arms of the mark are clearly of a different length, which happened often to Chopin. According to us, it is the top arm that is reliable, probably written first, from right to left.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Annotations in teaching copies, Scope of dynamic hairpins, Annotations in FES
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins