世論 What Japan Thinks

Here’s a quick filler survey from iShare, looking at wind instruments.

Demographics

Between the 23rd and 27th of July 2010 474 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.2% of the sample were male, 33.1% in their twenties, 30.4% in their thirties, and 36.5% in their forties.

I always thought the clarinet was a cool instrument for women, but for me, there was no real wind instrument I wanted to learn, although the shape of a French horn was and still is alluring!

Not surprisingly, the sax comes out tops in attractiveness for women, but men prefer the flute. I wonder if that figure includes women who are good with the shakuhachi (Japanese flute)? I’ll leave you to Google that one.

Research results

Q1: Regardless of whether or not you actually played it, when you were in your teens which wind instrument did you most want to be able to play? (Sample size=474)

	All	Male N=238	Female N=236
Saxophone	23.4%	26.1%	20.8%
Flute	15.2%	10.1%	20.3%
Trumpet	12.4%	17.2%	7.6%
Clarinet	3.8%	2.9%	4.7%
Oboe	2.5%	2.1%	3.0%
Trombone	2.1%	1.7%	2.5%
Horn	1.5%	1.3%	1.7%
Piccolo	0.6%	0.0%	1.3%
Bassoon	0.6%	0.4%	0.8%
Tuba	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
Other	1.3%	1.7%	0.8%
None	36.3%	36.1%	36.4%

Q2: What wind instrument do you think is the most cool for people of the opposite sex to play? (Sample size=474)

	All	Male N=238	Female N=236
Saxophone	32.5%	23.1%	41.9%
Flute	19.8%	34.9%	4.7%
Trumpet	11.2%	7.1%	15.3%
Trombone	4.0%	1.7%	6.4%
Oboe	2.5%	1.3%	3.8%
Clarinet	1.7%	2.5%	0.8%
Tuba	1.7%	2.1%	1.3%
Horn	0.8%	1.3%	0.4%
Bassoon	0.6%	0.0%	1.3%
Piccolo	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
Other	1.1%	0.8%	1.3%
None	23.8%	24.8%	22.9%