Piano sales in the U.S. have plummeted in recent years. But the the dip isn't indicative of fewer people playing the instrument.

In research conducted by Madigan et al. (2019), involving 2,441 children aged 24, 36, and 60 months (50.2 percent boys and 49.8 percent girls), the study reported that “[a]pproximately 98% of US ...