About the Website

The original website was conceived and built by a couple of people:

• Ted Cizadlo
• Andy Linton

We both live in Wellington, New Zealand and we built the site to help us and other folks at our local session in our tune learning. Other people around the world have found it useful too.

Use of Recordings

Go raibh míle maith agat to all the players of the tune clips who’ve given us permission to use their recordings. We really appreciate your help.

We’ve also used some excerpts from tunes from sites like YouTube on a Fair Use basis. We believe that our use is for nonprofit educational purposes. See Fair use on YouTube

And a big thanks to Jeremy Keith who runs The Session for many of the ABC files used on our site and for tips and ideas for building a better site.

Technical Stuff

The site runs on a ClassicPress platform using a custom plugin to create the shortcodes we use to add JavaScript capabilities to the site. This provides tools such as the MP3 player and ABC handling we need.

We moved to WordPress from our original Jekyll based static site in early 2023 and migrated to ClassicPress in October 2024.

There’s also a plugin that you can use to slowdown and loop tunes if you’re running your website on your own WordPress or ClassicPress site and want to have similar features to the audio player used here – see Choon Player.