Chopin himself says that on that point all were unanimous.

But the touchy artist, in true artist fashion-- or shall we be quite just and say "in true human fashion"?
adds:-- They are accustomed to the drumming of the native pianoforte virtuosos.

I fear that the newspapers will reproach me with the same thing, especially as the daughter of an editor is said to drum frightfully.

However, it does not matter; as this cannot be helped, I would rather that people say I play too delicately than too roughly.
When Count Moritz Lichnowski, to whom Chopin was introduced by Wurfel, learned after the first concert that the young virtuoso was going to play again, he offered to lend him his own piano for the occasion, for he thought Chopin's feebleness of tone was owing to the instrument he had used.

But Chopin knew perfectly the real state of the matter: "This is my manner of playing, which pleases the ladies so very much." Chopin was already then, and remained all his life, nay, even became more and more, the ladies' pianist par excellence.