Oom-pah

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Oom-pah from Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who!
The oom-pah and boom-pah are in there somewhere...

Brass instrument native to the Whovian people of Whoville, who live on a speck of dust. When their world is threatened, they use this instrument to make noise enough to be heard by larger creatures. From the 1954 children's picture book Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss.

"Oompah" is an onomatopoeic word, based on the sound of a tuba, and dates back to the late 1870s.

They blew on bazookas and blasted great toots

On clarinets, oom-pahs and boom-pahs and flutes!

Great gusts of loud racket rang high through the air.

They rattled and shook the whole sky!

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