The bar chart showed the percentage of school children learning to play four different musical instruments (violin, guitar, piano, drums) in 3 years 2005, 2010, 2015. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart provides information concerning the proportion of student preferences to play four types of musical instruments in 3 years. The data can be divided into two groups, namely the numbers that experienced an upward trend and a downward trend. Figures are given in percentage units.

Overall

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, it can be clearly seen that piano and guitar ranked at the top of the chart,

whereas

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drums and violin stood at the bottom throughout the period. Starting with the more popular figures, the number of pianos and guitars

initially

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remained at more than 10 in 2005, before remarkably rising to around 20 in 2010. After that, the latter reached a peak of 40 in 2015,

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the former was calculated less than that. Moving on to the less favourable figures, the number of drums remained stable at about 5 in 2005.

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, it was slightly increased to almost 10 in 2015. The exception to

this

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was violin because the trend minimally decreased from 10 to 5 over the following 3 years.