The vertical bar chart provides a breakdown of different school learners by the musical instruments they were learning to play in 2005, 2010 and 2015. One of the most striking features of the chart is the overall increase in the proportions of students taking up different kinds of instruments over the years, except for the violin.
Over the decade under study, the two kinds of musical instruments witnessing the most dramatic rise in terms of learners were the piano and the guitar. Starting at only 10%, each type of instruments attracted around a fifth of the total learners five years later before rocketing to almost 40% in 2015. Most strikingly, the guitar, which was the second most popular instrument at the beginning of the period eventually came top at the end of the period under study.
By contrast, the changes in the figure for the drums was less significant, as it remained stable in the first five years before experiencing a minor increase of around 5% in the rest of the period. The violin was the only kind of instrument which saw a gradual decline in the proportion of learners, edging down from a high of 10% in 2005 to below this figure in 2010. At the end of the period, this figure halved to merely 5%, making it the least popular type of musical instrument throughout the 10-year period.