Band 8+: The bar chart showed the percentage of school children learning to play four different musical instruments (violin, guitar, piano, drums) in 3 years 2005, 2010, 2015. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart compares the proportions of students choosing to learn four different musical instruments from 2005 to 2015, in five-year intervals.

Overall, the rates of guitar, piano, and drums increased throughout the period, while that of violin witnessed a reversed trend. Additionally, guitar was able to maintain its dominance over the entire time span.

Regarding the three increasingly adopted instruments, around 10% of school children learned guitar and piano in 2005, with guitar having a slight advantage over its competitor. In the next years, both cohorts consistently exhibited significant growths and concluding at approximately 27% and 25%, in the same order. The share of drums, however, began at just over 5% of students, experienced a stabilization in the next 5 years, followed by a marginal rise of approximately 2% in 2015.

Turning to the remaining bracket, it did not undergo notable changes. Specifically, around 8% of the surveyed population learned to play the violin in the first two time markers before negligibly decreasing by 1% in the final year.