oom-pah

  1. Noun.  (music) A genre of Germanic music (especially Bavarian music) typically involving brass instruments.
  2. Noun.  (music) A bass line characteristic of such music, a bass that alternates lower and higher notes or chords on the beat, or that alternates in a mid-high-low-high sequence.

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