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Christopher Robin's
Green Door
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There are some very
clever writers who say it is quite easy not to have an
er-h'r'm, but I don't agree with them.
I
think it is much easier not to have all the rest of the book.
-- A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six
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There are many Web sites relating to A.A. Milne, his
son Christopher (Robin) Milne, A.A.'s children's books and the characters in them, and the adaptations of these
books and characters by Walt Disney. Many of these (I note with considerable awe) are very rich in graphics, information
and activities and are laid out with great care. I often end up asking myself what you may be asking yourself:
What sets this Web site apart from all the others?
Well, this site (despite its small size) is something
other than just a fan site. You see, the character Christopher Robin was more than just a childhood interest; he
was my childhood alter ego (more so in his Disney incarnation than in the original Milne/Shepard
incarnation on the left).
But more than that, Christopher Robin as a character was the inspiration for much of my own childhood role-playing.
That role-playing was rarely if ever in A.A. Milne's original
setting. Moreover, my adaptation of Christopher Robin grew and
changed as I aged (even changing his name as he went), until he
became a character both quite like and quite unlike the original. So
as not to distract from the essential "Pooh-ishness" of this site, I've put
that story in a
personal aside (it's also the first entry in the Table of
Contents below) which you may read or skip as you like.
Meanwhile,
in tribute to the part Christopher Robin specifically has played in my life, and to add to the fund of knowledge on the Web
concerning A.A. Milne and his creations, I open "Christopher Robin's Green Door" to you, the reader...
John Wheeler
(יוחנן
רכב) |
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The backgrounds used on these pages were created by
the Webmaster, using Paint Shop Pro 7.0 and Adobe PhotoDeluxe BE 1.0. The photograph of the original "Poohsticks
Bridge" used in the background on this page is taken from the cover of the book
The Enchanted Places by Christopher Milne (Methuen, 1974). Other photos used in the backgrounds come from Christopher
Milne's The Path Through the Trees (Methuen, 1979) and
The Hollow on the Hill
(Methuen, 1982); from A.A. Milne's
The
World of Pooh (Dutton, 1957); and from
the Web site
Achim-the-Pooh's Home Page (now apparently offline),
which provided a beautiful colorized portrait of Christopher Robin and Pooh and an excellent photo of Poohsticks
Bridge. The original uncolored line drawing used as the basis for one background comes from
Disney's The New Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh: A Deluxe Coloring
Book (Golden Books, 1991). It was colorized
by this author using Adobe PhotoDeluxe BE 1.0.
I owe many of the illustrations used on this site to a number of Web sites devoted to A.A. Milne and his works.
Many others were digitally manipulated by myself, with the end of presenting images of the highest graphic quality
possible. No infringement of copyright, either pertaining to the original works by Milne and Shepard and their
adaptations by Walt Disney, the creator of any other media presentation of these works, Methuen or any other book
publisher of A.A.'s or Christopher's works or literary reviews of those works, or any photographer working in connection
with any of the above works, is intended. No commercial gain is intended on the part of the author of this Web
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The MIDI files and the graphics used on this
site come from:
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All of the MIDI
files used on this Web site have been retuned to "just tuning"
using the following freeware... |
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Scala
(see also the
Wikipedia article)
is a powerful software tool for experimentation with
musical tunings, such as just intonation scales, equal and
historical temperaments, microtonal and macrotonal scales, and
non-Western scales. It supports scale creation, editing,
comparison, analysis, storage, tuning of electronic instruments,
and MIDI file generation and tuning conversion. All this is
integrated into a single application with a wide variety of
mathematical routines and scale creation methods. Scala is ideal
for the exploration of tunings and becoming familiar with the
concepts involved. In addition, a very large library of scales
is freely available for Scala and can be used for analysis or
music creation.
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Updated March 01, 2010
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