The bar graph compares the percentages of students who learned to play four distinct types of musical instruments in three separate years: 2005, 2010, and 2015.
Overall, with the exception of the violin, the study’s instruments were learned by considerably more pupils in 2015 than in prior years. Furthermore, the guitar and piano were the most popular instruments to learn throughout all of the years studied.
In 2005, roughly 11% of schoolchildren were learning to play the guitar, piano, or violin, compared to only 5% of kids learning to play the drums. By 2010, the guitar and piano had nearly doubled in popularity, with over 20% and 18% of pupils learning to play them, respectively. In the same year, the percentage of students learning to play the drums remained unchanged, while the percentage of students learning to play the violin declined marginally.
In 2015, the number of schoolchildren studying the guitar increased by around 10%, while the percentage of students learning the piano more than doubled to almost 40%. Furthermore, although the number of children studying the drums climbed slightly to 8%, the percentage of children learning the violin decreased fairly to only 5%.