The highly regarded cellist of modern times, Yo-Yo Ma, has admitted that his performance during Barrack Obama’s inauguration is indeed not live.

The tune that people heard on their television sets was actually a tape recording made specially for the event.

Yo-Yo Ma feared that the temperature might not have prevented the instruments to stay in tune so he had to have a back-up plan.

He did, however, play in-sync and live for only the people close to him to hear.

At least this news took the attention away from the swearing-in flub.