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Our alternative, variant suggestion |
FES contains vague signs in this bar, out of which two seem to have musical sense – a slur starting under the F
minim and a 
hairpin of a similar range. In the main text we do not include any of them:
- the slur, basically doubling the printed phrase mark, is clearly a teaching remark, reminding of the need to hold a full rhythmic value of this note;
- the interpretation of one of the lines as a hairpin is subject to a certain degree of uncertainty – this line, together with the vertical line, may also be a diagonal cross, so typical of Chopinesque teaching entries.
As the reasonably complements the 
indication from the previous bar, we suggest the version including this sign as an alternative solution.
Compare the passage in the sources »
category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Annotations in teaching copies, Annotations in FES
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins