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yes that's I think what the composer wants.

FIN means the end

I suppose the composer wants you to repeat a part.

So when you reach the end of page 1 where that mark is, you go back to the start of the page where the other copy of that mark is, and then play on till FIN.

Its more usual to use words like "Da Capo" and "del segno" or "del desno al fin" or something like that in these cases.

> begging, beggining
LOL check your spelling, begging is something else

BTW I'm sure you can play the 2nd page note perfect

I wonder if this is from someone who's been using one of those music notation programs for the computer. It looks like the instructions overlaid on the sheet (the S sign and the FIN) aren't quite complete. These instructions are customarily in Italian, and FIN would normally be 'FINE', meaning 'end'. The S sign is a kind of bookmark, so when you see it, you know that a little further on down the line, you're going to be asked to go back and play from the S mark again. Here, I'd have expected to see 'Dal Segno al Fine' (or shortened to DS al Fine) at the end of the page. So, you start at the beginning (always a good place to start), play right through to the close, and there you get the next instruction, 'DS al Fine', meaning now go back to the S bookmark, and continue till you get to 'Fine', and then stop.

If this is a single page of sheet music, I wouldn't expect to see the S mark at the start, I'd only expect to see that used further into the music. If you've to go back to the beginning, that's normally written like 'Da Capo al Fine' (or 'DC al Fine'), meaning 'go back to the beginning, and play on until the 'Fine' mark.