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by hunter2_ 763 days ago
> freaks who can sing perfect sine waves

Whistle, don't sing. Try it with a realtime analyzer which shows the fundamental being far more prominent than any harmonics above it, which means it's close to a sine wave. Then sing various vowels which will show as a series of harmonics whose amplitude ratios change per vowel but are never reduced nearly as much as when whistling.