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Robert Spinrobin
Protagonist and tenor singer in the 1910 novel The Human Chord by Algernon Blackwood. He runs afoul of ex-clergyman Philip Skale, who believes that everything has an unknown "true" name, and by intoning it properly, it can transform it materially. Chanting a person's "true" name will allow the chanter to meld and become as one with the chantee. Skale believes he has learned some true names, and hires Spinrobin as his assistant, because proper intoning requires a vocal quartet.
Skale has planned that he will sing bass, Spinrobin tenor, Mrs. Mawle (Skale's housekeeper) alto, and her pretty daughter Miriam Mawle soprano. Unfortunately for Spinrobin, Skale isn't planning on chanting any ole person's true name, but that of a higher power.
