Jubilee (biblical) it was thought that the English term "Jubilee" derives from the Hebrew term "yobel" (via Latin ""), which in turn derives from "yobhel", meaning "ram"; the Jubilee year was announced by a blast on a shofar, an instrument made from a ram's horn, during that year's Yom Kippur. An alternative etymology notes that the Latin verb "iūbilō", "shout for joy," predates the Vulgate, and proposes that instead the Latin "jubilo" (meaning "shout"), as well as Middle Irish "ilach" (victory cry), New English "yowl", and Ancient Greek "iuzo" (ἰύζω: shout), derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*yu-" (shout for joy). In this
Horn (instrument) up a great deal more flexibility in playing in different keys; in effect, the horn became an entirely different instrument, fully chromatic for the first time. Valves were originally used primarily as a means to play in different keys without crooks, not for harmonic playing. That is reflected in compositions for horns, which only began to include chromatic passages in the late 19th century. When valves were invented, generally, the French made narrower-bored horns with piston valves and the Germans made larger-bored horns with rotary valves. The variety in horn history includes fingerhole horns, the natural horn, Russian horns, French