# CPAC National Anthem performance **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 1, 2021, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpac-national-anthem-performance/934058 "2021-03-01T20:13:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 88
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpac-national-anthem-performance/934058/88 "2021-03-02T22:09:57Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Having defined “keys” that MUST be adhered to is a liberal plot to nanny state singing. Everyone knows Geroge Soros came up with the concept of “keys” that musty be “unlocked”. Good satire, that— but in a case akin to “[mistaking the real thing for a parody](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mistaking-the-real-thing-for-a-parody/919342/),” political cranks like Lyndon LaRouche have insisted that the A=440 Hz tuning is a [conspiracy](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/A440#Conspiracy_theories_and_woo) against all that is good and right, and that correct order will not be restored until we return to A=432. In the transcribed music notation video that pulykamell shared in post 5 above, the song duly shifts into A=432 intonation… before shifting back to 440… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpac-national-anthem-performance/934058)._