The provided pie charts compare the proportion of children under 18 who learned different musical instruments in the rest of the UK in the years 1996 and 2016, while the bar chart illustrates the musical instruments chosen by them.
Overall, it is clearly seen that the percentage of children who learned a musical instrument in 2016 considerably increased by 37% compared to 1996, reaching 56%.
The bar chart shows that the proportion of children playing the piano took the highest position in 1996, standing at 30%, but this declined slightly to around 27% in 2016, receiving the second highest position. Meanwhile, the keyboard was the most popular musical instrument played by children in 2016, standing at 30%. This was followed by the percentage of children playing the electric guitar, which was around 13% in 1996 and just over 15% in 2016.
On the other hand, the acoustic guitar’s popularity rapidly decreased in 2016, with around 3% compared to nearly 10% in 1996. The number of children who played multiple instruments also insignificantly rose to around 13% in 2016. Similarly, the proportion of children playing other musical instruments was 3% in 1996 and 2% in 2016, respectively.