blare vs fife

blare

verb
  • To make a loud sound. 

  • To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly. 

noun
  • A loud sound. 

  • Dazzling, often garish, brilliance. 

fife

verb
  • To play this instrument. 

num
  • Used instead of five in radio communications to avoid confusion with fire. 

noun
  • A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music 

How often have the words blare and fife occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )