41 Music makes the world go round. It is a universal language, and people of all backgrounds can partake in it. It is a huge part of our everyday lives and culture as well as it offers people an outlet for creativity, expression and discipline. People admire people who can play music; just look at how large the music industry is! We wanted to find out from our followers about their musical interests, specifically in what instruments they play, their musical background and what they’re interested in learning to play next. This survey was followed by 614 respondents, and here are the results. More than half of our respondents (55.19%) play a string instrument such as violin, viola or guitar. Following that, 42.86% of respondents stated that they do choral or vocals. Rounding out the top three is percussion instruments at 30.68%. Woodwind (8.44%) and brass (4.06%) instruments are not as popular among our respondents. A greater percentage of males (67.98%) play string instruments than females (37.60%). The most popular string instruments that people play include the guitar and ukulele. Q1 (multiple answer) : What type of musical instrument do you play? Gender Male (n=356) Female (n=258) Option 1 : Woodwind (clarinet, flute, oboe, saxophone, etc.) 31 21 8.71% 8.14% Option 2 : Strings (violin, viola, guitar, ukelele, etc.) 242 97 67.98% 37.60% Option 3 : Percussion (drums, piano, gong, etc.) 99 89 27.81% 34.50% Option 4 : Brass (trumpet, tuba, trombone, etc.) 15 10 4.21% 3.88% Option 5 : Choral/Vocal 128 135 35.96% 52.33% Option 6 : Other 10 15 2.81% 5.81% Most females (52.3%) responded that they do choral or vocals. About an equal number say that they play strings (37.60%) or percussion (34.50%). Based on the report, other popular instruments that respondents play include the piano, melodica, recorder, suling, bass, harmonica, various types of drums, angklung, gamelan, vocals and viola. Some of the more uncommon instruments include the French horn, kecapi, triangle, kolintang, bells, trombone, saxophone, trumpet and clarinet. It seems that most people have learned to play many instruments in their life. In fact, our survey reports that 87.5% of our respondents have learned to play more than one instrument! The most common number is 3 instruments (30.36%) and 2 instruments (29.71%). We then asked how long our respondents have been playing music. Most have been playing for 3-4 years (21.59%) or 5-7 years (20.13%). Looking at the results from the three largest age groups of 16-19, 20-25 and 26-29, the numbers are consistent regardless of age. In looking at gender, it is interesting to note that for both males and females in this survey, the percentage at which they have played for less than one year or for more than 10 years are very similar. For males, it is 12% range and for females 20%. Q4 (single answer) : How long have you been playing music? Total Gender Male Female Option 1 : Less than one year 100 46 54 16.29% 12.92% 20.93% Option 2 : 1-2 years 116 72 44 18.89% 20.22% 17.05% Option 3 : 3-4 years 132 85 47 21.50% 23.88% 18.22% Option 4 : 5-7 years 124 83 41 20.20% 23.31% 15.89% Option 5 : 8-10 years 46 27 19 7.49% 7.58% 7.36% Option 6 : More than 10 years 96 43 53 15.64% 12.08% 20.54% Total 614 356 258 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% Most people play music because they “love or have always wanted to play any instrument” (63.64%). As well, 31.01% say that they “have always wanted to play the instrument that they currently play.” More than a fifth of respondents say that they “want to have a talent and impress my friends and family” (22.24%). Less than a tenth of respondents said that they play because their “parents wanted them to play an instrument (8.44%). When asked what type of musical instruments they would like to play next, many said that they are interested in learning percussion (41.37%) and strings (38.27%). Although woodwind and brass instruments are not as likely to be already played, there is interest in learning to play them. More than a quarter of respondents expressed interest in learning to play a woodwind instrument (26.06%) and 12.05% in a brass instrument. For more detail you can download XLS report at the button below. JAKPAT report consists of 3 parts which are 1) Respondent Profile, 2) Crosstabulation for each question and 3) Raw Data. Respondent profile shows you demographic profiles ( gendr,age range, locationby province, and monthly spending). Cross tabulation enables you to define different demographic segment preference on each answer. Click the icon to download XLS report And also PDF Report here: Musical Interest of Musicians Survey Report from Angela Arunarsirakul If you’re interested to do survey on retail and consumer goods field toward our respondents, we have over 31,000 mobile respondents ranged from age 17-50 years old, smartphone active users, and located in all regions of Indonesia that has installed our app and readily answering your survey. Those 31,000 respondents has been verified, profiled, and continuously tracked to make sure you get the updated profiles of them. Our respondents has been profiled based on their demographic (age,gender,location, spending level, profession,religion), lifestyle habit (smoking/non, gamers/non, wearing glasses/non, frequent flyer/non, online shopper/non), and also brand consumption level ( brand A users, brand B users in FMCG, Retail, E-commerce,etc). If you want to do research toward our respondent, please signup here and directly create your survey there. Or directly contact our Bizdev – Chrisprastika at +62-878-3908-9833. To non-Indonesian client, we offer free translation from foreign languages includes English, Chinese,Hindi,etc.
