fife vs shawm

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. 

shawm

noun
  • A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body. 

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