The given charts illustrate the data of musical instruments are chosen for learning purpose by British children under 18 in one area between 1996 and 2016.
Regarding pie charts, indicating the proportion of children engage in learning musical instrument in 1996 was 56% which was a higher statistic than the percentage of British children (44%). Meanwhile, looking at 2016’s chart, the figure for non-study musical instrument children was dominant accounted for 76%, showing the substaintial decline by 32% in the proportion of children knowing how to play musical instrument.
In terms of musical instruments’ choices, both keyboard and piano shared the highest figure over the year 1996 and 2016 (one third). Futhermore, the data of acoustic guitar suprisingly dropped by roughly 4% after 20 years, whereas the percentage of electric guitar had the positive increase to 17% at the same time.
From an overall perspective, the common instruments that British children tend to learning were piano and keyboard while acoustic guitar became fewer in children’s group. It is also notable that children have been less interest in musical instrument over the time.