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[[Image:Oom-pah_Horton_Hears_a_Who.png|frame|right|alt=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 ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton_Hears_a_Who! Horton Hears a Who!]'' by Dr. Seuss.

Boom-pah rhymes with "oompah," an onomatopoeic word based on the sound of a tuba. "Oompah" dates back to the late 1870s.

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They blew on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazooka_(instrument) 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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==See also==
*[[Oom-pah]]

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