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• “Katherine Bodenbender, another member of the ensemble, says that convincing the fingers of the right hand to play that "oompah" while the right thumb is plucking out the melody takes a little practice.”

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• “What makes the zither truly German is the "oompah" produced by all of those strings.”

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• “I'd even like to have a kind of oompah-music thingy on one of Ionic Vision's releases ... (laughs) Hey: It's all about that simple thing called "music"!”

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• “It's a typically riotous mix of oompah music-hall cavortings, slurred-pitch Middle Eastern rhapsodising, luxuriously sensuous clarinet love-songs, and stormy collective blasts reminiscent of the 1960s John Coltrane quartet.”

  The Guardian: Gilad Atzmon Orient House Ensemble: The Tide Has Changed

• “The mention of Bavaria may still conjure up images of rowdy beer halls, oompah bands and red-cheeked folk in dirndl and lederhosen, but the state capital, Munich, is revamping itself as Germany's answer to silicon valley.”

  The Guardian: How Bavaria became a European silicon valley

• “They will be frying fish in barrels of oil on the street, and setting off firecrackers, and dancing to an oompah band.”

  Simon & Schuster: Deadly

• “In Detroit's Greektown, you can yell "oompah" to saganaki -- cheese grilled in brandy and lit on fire!”

  The Huffington Post: April Rudin: This Is My Detroit: What the Motor City Means to Me

• “Here was the bigger picture in testimony and flickering footage: the rise of Hitler from his lederhosen days; his campaign against Berlin, a dangerous world city of artists, thinkers, homosexuals, Jews and communists; we learned where the Brown Shirts got their mindset from, and their Mausers; how Hitler charmed and then rid himself of his political enemies; there was the burning of books to the sound of oompah bands.”

  The Guardian: Rewind TV: The Man Who Crossed Hitler; Hans Litten vs Adolf Hitler: To Stop a Tyrant; Random; American: The Bill Hicks Story; The Hour – review

• “And she can sing, even if the arrangement here has a bit of an oompah feel to it.”

  Carla Bruni: Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out

• “Long Island Summer Lounge is one of many rooftop bars to open across Germany in the past few years, offering sun-seeking patrons an elegant downtown alternative to the oompah of a shady beer garden.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Rooftop Terraces Are Raising the Bar

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