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The bar chart shows the percentage of school children learning to play different musical instrument in 2005, 2010 and 2015. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart shows the percentage of school children learning to play different musical instrument in 2005, 2010 and 2015. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The bar diagram provides data on the proportion of children in school, who are studying how to play various musical instruments in three different years.
It is clear that
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 musical instruments in the year 2015
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 far more popular than in the previous decade.
However
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,
along
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during
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 the period, the interest
to
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in
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 playing musical instruments rose steadily, and made up just under 40 per
cent
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, starting from around a tenth. By 2015,
percentage
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the percentage
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 of Violin classes had fallen to a mere 5 per
cent
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,
while
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 drums had reached a peak at around 10 per
cent
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. It can be seen that Piano rose from just above a tenth to 20 exactly over the period of 5 years, starting from 2005.
Moreover
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, the strongest competitor to
piano
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the piano
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 was
guitar
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the guitar
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:
it
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which
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 had almost the same
propotion
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proportion
 as
piano
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the piano
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, but in
2015
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the 2015
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 year made up the biggest
ration
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ratio
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 - around 40 per
cent
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.
Overall
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, everything rose with the exception of
violin
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the violin
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, and
while
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guitar
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the guitar
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 turned
to
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out to
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 be the instrument with the highest popularity, the violin became the most unpopular.

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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "while".
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Vocabulary: Replace the words cent with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "around" was used 3 times.
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