The given bar chart illustrates the percentage of school children learning to play a range of different musical instruments, namely piano, drums, guitar and violin in 2005, 2010 and 2015.
Overall, piano and guitar were consistently favored to learn by school children throughout the years while the opposite was true for drum and violin, which were the least preferred instruments during the 10-year period.
In 2005, the percentage of children who chose to play guitar and piano was nearly the same, at approximately 10%, standing at the highest position among four instruments, followed by violin, which was at about 7%. Drum had the lowest percentage of children learning to play, at nearly 6%.
In the next 10 years, guitar experienced a significant increase of nearly 10% in 2010 and continued to grow to approximately 27% in 2015. The similar trend was also seen in that of piano, the percentage of piano learners grew considerably from 17% in 2010 to 25% in 2015. In 2010, the percentage of children who chose to learn drum and violin remained unchanged from 2005, at 6% and 7% respectively. However, after 5 years, the figure for drum surpassed that of violin to 8%, making violin the least favorable instrument among the four instruments, at 6%.