fife vs recorder

fife

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

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

verb
  • To play this instrument. 

recorder

noun
  • A musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute. 

  • A judge in a municipal court. 

  • An apparatus for recording; a device which records. 

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