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If most all of the music produced by an oompah band is in 3/4 time, and if this word is supposed to mimic the sound of the band, why is it not called an "oompahpah" band and "oompahpah" music?
P.S. Can you tell that we spent last weekend in romantic Leavenworth, a mock Bavarian town in the Washington "alps"?
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Dunno FS. Maybe it's because bands in your part of the world march to the beat of a different drum?  Hope you enjoyed your weekend! In the Hofbräuhaus in Munich probably only about half of the music played by the resident band is in 3/4 time. Don't know if that's meaningful, though.
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I had a thoreauly good at that one pfranz. And it is quite likely that they were originaly called Oompahpah bands and that it has just been contracted. Perhaps when the players got contracts.
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I thought the name of the kind of music was oompah, but the sound these bands tend to make is oompahpah. Oom is also Afrikaans for Uncle (as in Oom Paul). So is Oom Papa father-uncle?
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Rather like the Scandinavian way of differentiating between grandmothers by whether they are your mother's mother (Mormor) or your father's mother (Farmor)? (Same with grandads, of course - Farfar and Morfar.) Does Dutch/Afrikaans differentiate in the same way, d'ye know?
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I'm familiar with the Danish words, but I don't think Dutch distinguishes between paternal and maternal grandparents lexically. (I know that German doesn't.) Kinship terms are quote varied and interesting.
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Thanks, jheem - I know nothing about Dutch at all.
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In French we don't differentiate between paternal or maternal grandparents.
I'm starting another thread on grandparent names since I don't want to ambuse Father Steve's oompah thread..
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Back in the twenties, many New England towns had commons
with a band stand. Quite a crowd came to listen every
Saturday night. If only for a change from what little music
they had at home. The repertoire was 90% John Phillips Souza, definitely oompahpah. Hotdogs, popcorn, and and
lemonade were an added attraction. A place you could take
a girl to, without needing much money, nor anxiety on part
of her parents.
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Here's one idea about oompah bands :
In some bands (no violins or drums) the base line was carried by the bassoon (that big bell instrument the player "wears" - have I recalled the right name musick?) which has the sound ompah-pah. It made for a distinctive collective sound. Hence oompahpah bands.
The same 3/4 tunes could be played by other groups of musicians from bands with drums to full orchestras.
Well, anyway it's a place to start the ideas, right?
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