Which of these statements about sound is NOT correct?

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1. Which of these statements about sound is NOT correct?

Pitch generally lets us tell a male voice from a female voice

The loudness of sound is related to its frequency

A musical sound has well-defined frequencies, generally harmonics of a fundamental frequency

The timbre of a musical sound is related to its waveform

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Loudness is related to amplitude, not frequency, making this statement the incorrect one. Frequency, instead, governs pitch — which is genuinely why pitch helps distinguish male and female voices.