Oom-pah
Oom-pah, Oompah or Umpapa is an onomatopoeic term describing the rhythmic sound of a deep brass instrument in combination with the response of other instruments or registers in a band, a form of background ostinato.[1][2]
The oom-pah sound is usually made by the
triple time genres such as the waltz
it is oom-pah-pah.
The musical Oom-Pah-Pah", which is named after the oom-pah.
A more modern variation is the playing of contemporary pop and rock songs in an Oompah style, by bands such as Global Kryner (Austria), Brumpah (UK Westmidlands) [3] and Oompah Brass (UK) (who dubbed the style "Oompop").[4] The American jam band Phish features the oom-pah-pah in their song "Harpua".
See also
- Duple time, a musical metre
- Carter Family picking, a guitar playing technique
- Humppa, a style of music from Finland
- Eläkeläiset, a Finnish humppa band
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