I have just become aware that the primary school my daughter is leaving this July will no longer have any children learning an orchestral instrument in school from September.
The school in a leafy, middle-class village and still has lots of children having in-school music lessons, but this has changed from including brass, woodwind and strings to only rock and pop, music theatre/pop vocals, and piano. Around four or five years ago, approximately 30 children were learning orchestral instruments. My daughter, a string player, and one other child are now the only two left, and the violin teacher was unable to recruit students to make attendance still viable.
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