The bar charts illustrate the percentage of students learning four types of musical instruments in 2005, 2010, and 2015.
Overall, the popularity of three out of the four instruments increased throughout the period. Additionally, the guitar and piano were consistently the most widely learned instruments, whereas drums and violin had relatively low participation.
In detail, the percentage of students learning the piano was the highest at the beginning, starting at 11% in 2005. Over the next five years, it almost doubled to 20% and then surged to 39% in the final year. Similarly, the guitar followed an upward trend in the share of pupils playing it, increasing from 10% in 2005 to 19% in 2010. In the last year, it surpassed the piano as the most popular instrument, reaching a peak of 40%.
Meanwhile, the violin and drums had lower participation rates, with the former at 9% and the latter at 5% in the first year. The proportion of students learning the violin experienced a slight decline throughout the period, falling to 5% in 2015. In contrast, the figure for drums remained unchanged until 2010 before increasing to 9% by the end of the period.