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The fingering digit written in A could be interpreted twofold: as a '5', which is more graphically likely, or as a '3', which seems more natural, pianistically speaking. The source of the problem was the will to fit in the digit (apparently added later) under the word loco, ending the octave sign, which forced Chopin to write this digit almost horizontally; consequently, the resulting unnatural shape hampers the identification. The majority of the sources include a '5', whereas in the main text, we suggest a '3', due to practical reasons; it was also GE3 that considered this digit to be right. Such a solution is also supported by AsI, in which one can see deleted digits over the first two notes in the bar, most probably 5-4. In FESB both this digit and the adjacent ones were most probably overlooked (see the previous note).
The digit '3' added in pencil in our copy of GE2 is of no source value.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Errors in FE, GE revisions, Inaccuracies in A
notation: Fingering
