The pie chart below illustrates the information about the amount of children who learning or not learning a musical instrument, while the line graph discusses the percentage of under 18 – children who learning a musical instrument in 1996 and 2006. . It can be seen that less youngers learning at least a musical implementation from 1996 to 2006.
In 1996, the children who learning musical instruments represented more than half of the chart, at 56% whereas the non-learning accounted for 44% respectively. But later, the youngers who not learning musical implementations dominated the pie chart, made up a significant majority of segment, at 76% while the percentage of musical learner decreased to 24% in 2006.
It also had lots of choices in instruments which were learned by the children. In 1996, the highest preferred one was piano, at 30% of the musical leaners and the lowest was the other except acoustic and electric guitar, violin, keyboard and piano. The chart discusses that the piano learners represented 30%, accounted for one-third of the children. The second popular one was the keyboard which was at nearly 23%, followed by the electric guitar, whose percentage was closely 13%. Violin and acoustic guitar, were at nearly 15% and more than 5%, emerged as the two least favored implementations. Moreover, the children who learned more than 1 instrument represented more than 10% and the other was at nearly 3%. However, in 2006 the highest selected instrument was the keyboard, accounted for 30% and the lowest was the acoustic guitar, made up for nearly 0% respectively. The most favored one was keyboard, increased to 30% from 1996 to 2006, followed by piano, which was at nearly 27%. Electric guitar and piano, were at more than 15% and 10%, also one of the most popular musical instruments. The least favoured one was acoustic guitar, accounting for closely 3%. The percentage of youngers who learning more than one instrument does not change by 20 years, at 12% closely, and the other one decreased to 2%, according to the children’s indication of the preferences of musical instruments.