This is an agony aunt kind of question, and requires a certain degree of tact, (hence the alias) but does anyone have information on, or experience of, how the wearing of shorts might affect choice of key?

A brief discussion started in the gents at our local club last week, about a resident singer who took to wearing shorts some months ago at a time when it was still necessary to scrape ice from the windscreen after an evening at the club. This same gent now seems to be selecting higher and higher keys to sing in. As a result the other men of the club are now divided between those becoming increasingly adept at improvising bass harmonies and those who are thinking of deploying specialist underwear.

I'd be grateful for advice as to how one might tactfully draw attention to this without causing offence. It has also occurred to some of us that this problem might have something to do with the increasingly strident appeals that everyone else in the club wear shorts too. These requests are becoming increasingly difficult to refuse even in the current unseasonably chilly weather.   (So you may guess how this discussion started.)

A number of us would be grateful if this could be amicably resolved as one half the club is beginning to sound like a tribe of hysterical brass monkeys, the other like demented Paul Robeson impersonators.

In order to protect the innocent, and avoid anyone jumping to entirely the wrong conclusion, may I suggest that agony aunts responding from the UK use a guest alias…..