The pie chart illustrates the percentage of children learned how to play a musical instruments and bar chart gives information about the kinds of musical instrument they played in 1996 and 2016 in UK.
Overall, more children learned how to play music and the common instrument changed from piano to keyboard over the period of 20 years.
In 1996, 44% of British children learned how to play instrument. The figure rose sharply to three – quarters after two decades.
In the first year, the figure for children who played the piano around 30%, but it decreased slightly to around 25% in 2016. Meanwhile, the proportion that played the keyboard increased just over 20% and it climbed to a third. Violin and Acoustic guitar became less popular during the period of 20 years, especially Acoustic guitar felt by hard from 8% to 4%. In contrast, electric guitar rose in popularity, from 1996 to 2016.