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
Conch (instrument) main titles. Virtual instrument developer Tangent Edge Instruments has made an instrument called "Sea Trumpets" that makes it possible to play 35 conches with Software Samplers Sforzando or Kontakt on a computer. Conch (instrument) Conch, or conque, also known as a "seashell horn" or "shell trumpet", is a musical instrument (often a signal instrument), a wind instrument that is made from a seashell (conch), the shell of several different kinds of very large sea snails. As described by instrument maker Bart Hopkins, such shells are a "gift from the sea that provides a natural conical bore is conch. Conch shell