oompah

Two years ago, a 15-piece oompah band from Germany appeared there.

We had a German oompah band the other day in the dining room.

She usually floated her voice above the oompah bounce of ragtime and country.

"One year we even flew in a punk oompah band, but the crowds just ran away."

A strolling "oompah" band will play on Thursday evenings starting next week.

The was free and spirited drinking, and the oompah bands played everywhere.

He writes foursquare, oompah pieces, reminiscent of old blues and spirituals.

She hurried back to bed and awoke to the sound of a brass band, engaged in unrelenting oompah.

When Oompah raised his baton, the band burst into a lively march and the whole population began dancing in every direction.

In her own words "I hated it from the very first oompah to the final bang on the big bass drum.

After this respite, there is a diversion to E flat over an "oompah" bass figure.

The music is just two chords, plus a few mock-country licks, and a mild oompah rhythm.

It also hosted a Toronto based Oompah band.

She recorded some of his Slavic-sounding oompah on a digital tape and later wrote the words for a lurching manifesto.

Waitresses in lederhosen scurry about to the beat of an oompah soundtrack.

The tune went from oompah to swing with odd transformations as the dirigible glided into the restraining web.

Some say that the building, with its low lighting, occasional oompah band and encyclopedic selection of German beer, dates to the 18th century.

The songs are usually basic: a handful of chords and a chantlike melody over a waltz or an oompah beat.

They're like her Oompah Loompah servants.

The oompah will be provided by Werner Heckmann's Royal Bavarians.

The cats exploded into a razz-matazz just then with enough oompah to be heard six blocks away, so it would pull them in off the sidewalk.

The central bank piper is unmistakeably French, but the tune he plays is that of a Bavarian oompah band.

I sighed as the massive outer lock of the spaceship ground open and the militant oompah of band music was carried in by the outside air.

The Oct. 24 departure will celebrate Oktoberfest, with beer tastings and oompah and polka music.

She doesn't rush the music, which bounces along most of the time with an oompah somewhere between Kurt Weill and British skiffle.