Tenors avoid formant tuning because their range leaves a higher f0-to-formant ratio.

Evidence

This tuning-in effect is not something that tenors need to do since the ratio between the formant frequencies and the f0 of the tenor’s range is higher than that for sopranos. — David Howard, Jamie Angus, coustics and Psychoacoustics, 1373

Categorization

• XREF: Links directly to overtone singing and throat-singing techniques where similar spectral-timbre tradeoffs recur across voice types. — connects to: Tenors need not tune their tracts because their pitch-to-formant ratio stays high — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1356

Broader Connections

• Tenors need not tune their tracts because their pitch-to-formant ratio stays high #corroborates (0.95) — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1356