Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
By instrument
Everything the makers publish themselves, filed under the instrument it is for. Narrow it with the filters and whatever does not match fades back rather than disappearing, so you can still see what else exists.
Level
Format
39 instruments
Akai Professional
EWI Solo1 resourcevideo
EWI Solo How To Play, 3WE Sessions AKAI Pro Japan
Four videos taking one arrangement each and showing how it is played on the EWI Solo. Japanese, with bilingual titles. This is the only teaching material Akai has published for the EWI on any of its channels.
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Manufacturer's manual Akai Professional
EWI5000manual only
Manufacturer's manual Akai Professional
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
EWI4000Smanual only
Manufacturer's manual Akai Professional
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
EWI USBmanual only
Manufacturer's manual Akai Professional
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
EWI1000nothing yet
EVI1000nothing yet
Roland
Aerophone Pro AE-305 resourcesvideo
Aerophone Lesson Roland
Twelve lessons on fingerings and scales, eleven guided play-along songs, an interactive fingering chart, and scoring of your fingering as you play. Play-along from your own music with slow-down and A-B repeat. The AE-30 needs system version 1.10 or later.
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Aerophone Pro Editor Roland
Layer up to four tones into a Scene, edit ZEN-Core tones and effects, and assign parameters to breath, bite and the onboard controls. Connects over Bluetooth.
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Playing the Aerophone Pro AE-30 with sample libraries VGTrumpet
A video walkthrough of how the AE-30 behaves when it is driving sampled instruments rather than its own sounds. The same thing is written out on the page underneath, if you would rather read than watch.
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Aerophone Basics iSax Academy
Twenty video lessons, over eight hours, for beginners and improvers: every note and the alternative fingerings. PDF sheet music for each lesson, backing tracks, practice sheets, a forum, and monthly live webinars with Alistair Parnell, who runs the academy.
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Advanced Aerophone iSax Academy
More than thirty-five video lessons, over ten hours, on detailed setup, customising the controls, MIDI, the editor app and building your own sounds. PDFs, downloadable sounds, sheet music and backing tracks, a forum, and monthly live webinars.
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Manufacturer's manual Roland
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
Aerophone AE-204 resourcesvideo
Aerophone Lesson Roland
Twelve lessons on fingerings and scales, eleven guided play-along songs, an interactive fingering chart, and scoring of your fingering as you play. Play-along from your own music with slow-down and A-B repeat. The AE-30 needs system version 1.10 or later.
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Aerophone Pro Editor Roland
Layer up to four tones into a Scene, edit ZEN-Core tones and effects, and assign parameters to breath, bite and the onboard controls. Connects over Bluetooth.
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Aerophone Basics iSax Academy
Twenty video lessons, over eight hours, for beginners and improvers: every note and the alternative fingerings. PDF sheet music for each lesson, backing tracks, practice sheets, a forum, and monthly live webinars with Alistair Parnell, who runs the academy.
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Advanced Aerophone iSax Academy
More than thirty-five video lessons, over ten hours, on detailed setup, customising the controls, MIDI, the editor app and building your own sounds. PDFs, downloadable sounds, sheet music and backing tracks, a forum, and monthly live webinars.
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Manufacturer's manual Roland
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
Aerophone AE-102 resourcesvideo
Aerophone Editor Roland
The AE-10 has no lesson app. This is its editor: four layered tones, tone lists, and assignments for breath, bite and the thumb controls. Needs AE-10 system version 2.10 or later.
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Aerophone Basics iSax Academy
Twenty video lessons, over eight hours, for beginners and improvers: every note and the alternative fingerings. PDF sheet music for each lesson, backing tracks, practice sheets, a forum, and monthly live webinars with Alistair Parnell, who runs the academy.
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Manufacturer's manual Roland
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
Aerophone GO AE-052 resourcesvideo
Aerophone GO Plus Roland
Eleven tutorial songs, a metronome, play-along from your own music with tempo and key change, and fifty extra sounds.
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Aerophone Basics iSax Academy
Twenty video lessons, over eight hours, for beginners and improvers: every note and the alternative fingerings. PDF sheet music for each lesson, backing tracks, practice sheets, a forum, and monthly live webinars with Alistair Parnell, who runs the academy.
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Manufacturer's manual Roland
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
Aerophone Brisa (AE-BRISA)1 resource
Aerophone Brisa Plus Roland
A visual fingering guide and a real-time note display, plus fingering modes, harmony, transposition and effects. Note that the Aerophone Pro Editor does not work with the Brisa; this is its app.
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Manufacturer's manual Roland
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
Aerophone mini AE-012 resourcesvideo
Aerophone mini Plus Roland
Eleven self-guided tutorial songs with the fingering shown on screen, a metronome, tempo and A-B repeat, and fifty extra sounds.
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Mini Basics iSax Academy
Eighteen video lessons for the Aerophone mini: setting it up and learning every note, plus the higher notes above the standard range. PDFs, backing tracks and monthly live webinars.
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Manufacturer's manual Roland
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
Yamaha
YDS-1502 resourcesvideo
How to play Yamaha Digital Saxophone YDS-150 Yamaha
Yamaha's own five-part user guide: getting started, the basic functions, connecting the app, and maintenance and storage.
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YDS Controller app manual Yamaha
The web manual for the phone app: building a user voice, customising the fingerings, and connecting over Bluetooth or USB. It covers the YDS-120 as well, which connects by cable rather than Bluetooth.
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Manufacturer's manual Yamaha
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
YDS-1201 resource
YDS Controller app manual Yamaha
The web manual for the phone app: building a user voice, customising the fingerings, and connecting over Bluetooth or USB. It covers the YDS-120 as well, which connects by cable rather than Bluetooth.
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Manufacturer's manual Yamaha
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
WX5manual only
Manufacturer's manual Yamaha
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
WX7manual only
Manufacturer's manual Yamaha
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
WX11manual only
Manufacturer's manual Yamaha
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
EMEO
MK1 Digital Saxophonemanual only
Manufacturer's manual EMEO
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
MS Digital Saxophone1 resource
EMEO MS Quick Start Guide EMEO
The short way in, separate from the full manual: what is in the box, charging, first sound, and connecting it. Edition of April 2026.
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Manufacturer's manual EMEO
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
Artinoise
re.corder3 resourcesvideo
re.corder video tutorials for beginners Artinoise
Sixteen videos from the maker for someone starting out. The instrument also plays acoustically as an ordinary recorder, which makes it an unusual first instrument.
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re.corder video tutorials for advanced users Artinoise
Eleven videos going past the basics: custom fingerings, the play modes, and what the instrument can be pushed to do.
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re.corder as a wind MIDI controller Artinoise
Sixty-five videos on driving software and hardware instruments with it, rather than on playing the recorder. The largest collection of its kind from any maker in this catalogue.
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Manufacturer's manual Artinoise
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
Berglund
NuEVI R21 resourcevideo
Getting started with the NuEVI and NuRAD Berglund Instruments
Berglund's own starting point, linking the combined user guide for both instruments and a chaptered video walkthrough. The complete set, including the version addendums that document everything added since, is on their firmware page.
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Manufacturer's manual Berglund
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
NuRAD R21 resourcevideo
Getting started with the NuEVI and NuRAD Berglund Instruments
Berglund's own starting point, linking the combined user guide for both instruments and a chaptered video walkthrough. The complete set, including the version addendums that document everything added since, is on their firmware page.
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Manufacturer's manual Berglund
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
Aodyo
Sylphyo1 resourcevideo
Sylphyo User Guide Aodyo Instruments
Aodyo puts its teaching in the guide rather than on YouTube. Eleven videos sit inside the text at the point where they are needed: how to hold it, the C major scale, shaping a note, shake vibrato, inertial mode, elevation and roll, the slider. The written part covers eighteen fingering systems and every connection.
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Manufacturer's manual Aodyo
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
ASM
Diosynth1 resource
Diosynth manual and Manager software ASM
The owner's manual, the Diosynth Manager guide and the editor itself for Windows and Mac, plus firmware. ASM has published no lesson material for the Diosynth; its tutorial videos are all about the Hydrasynth.
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Manufacturer's manual ASM
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
Odisei
Travel Sax 25 resourcesvideo
Travel Sax 2: Get Started Odisei Music
Eight short videos from the maker, taking you from the box to the first notes.
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How to use the Travel Sax app Odisei Music
The app is where the lessons, the backing tracks, the fingering charts and the practice statistics live. These videos show how it works.
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Travel Sax 2 with a computer Odisei Music
Connecting it to a computer and playing software instruments with it.
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Odisei Play Odisei Music
Odisei's own learning app. It listens while you play and tells you note by note what happened, with short lessons and more than a hundred play-along songs. Saxophone and clarinet only for now. A Travel instrument connects directly instead of through the microphone.
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Get Started: Travel Sax 2 Odisei Music
Odisei's onboarding page for the saxophone, the twin of the clarinet one: setup video, silent practice, connecting the app, and the manual in seven languages.
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Manufacturer's manual Odisei
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
Travel Clarinet2 resourcesvideo
Get Started: Travel Clarinet Odisei Music
Odisei's onboarding page for the clarinet, built round a setup video and an FAQ video: silent practice, connecting the app, sound and volume, customising the fingerings, and care.
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Odisei Play Odisei Music
Odisei's own learning app. It listens while you play and tells you note by note what happened, with short lessons and more than a hundred play-along songs. Saxophone and clarinet only for now. A Travel instrument connects directly instead of through the microphone.
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Manufacturer's manual Odisei
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
WARBL
WARBL24 resourcesvideo
WARBL video index WARBL
Andrew Mowry keeps his videos on his own page rather than in a playlist. Twelve are about the WARBL2: unboxing, Bluetooth MIDI on iOS and Windows, calibrating the optical sensors, custom fingering charts, updating the firmware, the bell sensor. Videos by other people are further down the same page.
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WARBL Configuration Tool WARBL
Configuration runs in the browser over Web MIDI, with the instructions on the page: three presets, twenty-six built-in fingering charts plus four of your own, register by overblowing or thumb, button assignments, pressure and motion mapping. Chrome, Firefox or Opera; Safari does not work.
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WARBL2 Introduction WARBL
The maker's own tour of the instrument: what it is, how it is held and blown, and what the sensors do. Not a lesson, but the fastest way to understand the instrument before reading anything.
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WARBL Fingering Charts WARBL
Every built-in fingering chart drawn out, in its own PDF. Andrew Mowry keeps it separate from the user manual, so this is the document to open when you want to see the fingerings rather than read about them.
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Manufacturer's manual WARBL
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
Robkoo
Wind Synthesizer R11 resource
JamKoo beginner course Robkoo
Robkoo's own play-along app. The teaching sits in its Academy section, with interactive tutorials written for wind controller players and a course for the R1. Free to download.
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Manufacturer's manual Robkoo
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
Clarii Pro C201 resourcevideo
Clarii PRO C20 Video Manual Robkoo
Twenty-three short videos covering both playing and configuration: chords, articulation, overblowing, vibrato, portamento, key delay, changing sounds, the mixer and voice control.
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Manufacturer's manual Robkoo
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
Clarii mini1 resource
Clarii mini manual and in-app guide Robkoo
The interactive novice guide is inside the Clarii app rather than on the web, so this is the published half: Robkoo's support page with the Clarii mini manual in six languages and the sound list. The playing and basic settings chapters are the beginner ones.
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Manufacturer's manual Robkoo
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
Greaten
AP-500 Pro3 resourcesvideo
Playing the Greaten AP-500 Pro with sample libraries VGTrumpet
The same for the AP-500 Pro, again as a video: what it sends, how it feels, and how it sits with sampled instruments. Written out underneath as well.
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AP500 PRO Tutorials for Beginners Greaten Music
Four videos on Greaten's own channel for someone who has never held a wind controller: what an EWI is, the first notes, and how to practise.
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AP500 PRO User Guide Videos Greaten Music
Eleven short videos, one function each, including voice control, the dual voice function and the octave roller. This is the manual in video form.
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Manufacturer's manual Greaten
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
AP-300 Pronothing yet
AP-100 Promanual only
Manufacturer's manual Greaten
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
Cardona Bits
Haxophone1 resource
Haxophone instructions and safety Cardona Bits
The nearest thing to a getting-started guide: fitting the board to the Raspberry Pi, which image to use, first sound, and the trick for changing instrument, which is to draw air in while fingering a low B flat and then step through with the keys.
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Manufacturer's manual Cardona Bits
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
Morrison
Morrison Digital Trumpetnothing yet
Softwind
Synthophonemanual only
Manufacturer's manual Softwind
Not a lesson. The maker's own documentation for the instrument, which for most of them is also where the fingering charts are.
DigiBrass
The Tilt (2nd generation)1 resource
Expand Your Play, and the GO first lesson DigiBrass
A short series of written lessons on DigiBrass's own site: the simplest way to play, adding the fourth button, glide, vibrato, and connecting the instrument six different ways. The GO guided first lesson is separate and runs inside the DigiBrass Connect app.
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The Tipsy1 resource
Expand Your Play, and the GO first lesson DigiBrass
A short series of written lessons on DigiBrass's own site: the simplest way to play, adding the fourth button, glide, vibrato, and connecting the instrument six different ways. The GO guided first lesson is separate and runs inside the DigiBrass Connect app.
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Fame
BC-1nothing yet
The makers publish nothing at all for 14 of the 39 instruments in the catalogue, and for 5 there is not even a manual we could find: Akai Professional EWI1000, Akai Professional EVI1000, Greaten AP-300 Pro, Morrison Digital Trumpet, Fame BC-1. That gap is what the second half of this page is for.
Lessons from people
Video rather than documentation: lessons, and anything that shows how one of these instruments actually behaves. The name under each one is whoever made it, players and makers both. Every video here is free and complete, and nobody paid to be on this page.
Octave rollers, the break, scales and arpeggiosEvan Tate saxophonist and clinician, MunichThe first of his EWI Tuesday series. Working the octave rollers with the left thumb, getting across the break between roller positions, and taking scales and arpeggios through the octaves. Rollers are the thing owners complain about most.
A trumpet fingering for a MIDI keyboardVladimir Galaktionov VGTrumpetThe VG EVI Keys layout, played. Same fingers on a MIDI keyboard or a computer keyboard as on the instrument.
Setting up lip response on the Aerophone AE-10Alistair Parnell saxophonist, NottinghamHow to set the bite sensor so lip pressure gives you controlled bend and expression instead of wobble, and the embouchure that goes with those settings. The menu and the playing together, which is the part that is usually missing.
WARBL2 IntroductionAndrew Mowry maker of the WARBLA tour of the instrument by the man who designed it: how it is held and blown, what the sensors do, and what the fingering systems are for. The WARBL is a small thing that does not look like a wind controller, and this is the quickest way to understand it.
A video user guide to the NuEVI and the NuRADCurt Sipe EWI teacher, The ForgeAn hour and twenty minutes that work as the manual Berglund never wrote: holding the instrument, every sensor, the menus, firmware 1.6.1. If you own one of these, start here.
NuEVI overview: the sensors, the fingering, the soundsMark Steiner involved in the NuEVI project itselfThe main controls, and how the fingering covers seven octaves. Made by someone who worked on the instrument rather than a buyer, which is worth knowing while you watch. Eight years old, so the firmware has moved on.
A tour of every Akai EWI ever madeDino Soldo saxophonist and session playerSix models from the 1980s to now, one player, played rather than described: the feel, the response, and how the old analogue ones sound. The fastest way to know what you are buying second hand.
The Drone feature on the Aerophone ProKeith Mckelley saxophonistFive minutes on one thing: how to hold a note and play over the top of it. The order of thumb and breath matters, and nothing tells you that.
The Sylphyo played and taken apart on cameraSax.co.uk a retailer, so weigh it accordinglyTwenty minutes with the instrument in hand: the breath response, the touch keys, the motion sensor. The people filming sell it, which is said here so you can weigh what you hear.
EMEO MS reviewed by a saxophone teacherDr Wally Saxophone AcademyTwenty minutes on whether a silent practice saxophone actually helps you practise: the new features, the build, the portability, and whether the key feel holds up. He says EMEO gave his viewers a discount code and that he declined any commission.
The Robkoo R1 from a woodwind player's point of viewAshley Jarmack woodwind playerTen minutes of what transfers from a real instrument and what does not, from somebody who plays the acoustic ones for a living.
Every wind synth on the market, one after anotherSax.co.uk a retailer, so weigh it accordinglySixteen minutes, every instrument played in turn, with timestamps so you can jump to the one you are considering. The shop filming it sells them, which is said here so you can weigh what you hear.
Aerophone AE-30 with VG Wind EnsembleVladimir Galaktionov VGTrumpetWhat an Aerophone sounds like through a sampled library instead of its own sounds, and how the breath control is set up to get there.
Greaten AP-500 Pro with VG Wind EnsembleVladimir Galaktionov VGTrumpetThe same for the AP-500 Pro: the controller driving sampled wind instruments, played rather than explained.+Your video could be hereA lesson, or anything that shows how one of these instruments really behaves. Write to me: [email protected]
Your video can go here
This part of the page is for video from the people who play these instruments. A lesson, free or paid, in any language. Or a video that shows how one of them actually behaves: the thing the manual never tells you, the quirk you worked around, two instruments side by side. Write to me and I will look at it. Your name and your channel go on the card, and the page is linked from the catalogue of 39 instruments next door.
Same address if you know a manual or a guide we are missing. Four instruments here still have nothing at all.
[email protected] write to me, that is the whole procedure
VG Wind Ensemble
A wind controller sends MIDI and makes no sound of its own. VG Wind Ensemble is what we build for it to play: trumpet, saxophones, flutes, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, harmonica and more, recorded from live players and set up for breath control. VST, AU and standalone.
This one is ours. Nothing listed above was put there to help sell it.