"First ending" has a notation "2nd time R.H. 8va"
In a simple piano book I'm using, one of the songs that has a first and second ending, has the notation in the bar for the first ending ("1."): "2nd time R.H. 8va".
How can there be a second time playing a first ending??
I scanned the sheet but can't figure out how to post the scan.
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Is there a pickup phrase at the end of the first ending? If so, then I would expect that the "2nd time R.H. 8va" notation is placed in the 1st ending to remind you to start playing an octave up at that pickup. Otherwise it would sound odd to play the pickup in the written octave and then suddenly jump an octave up on the downbeat.
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