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Study says learning a musical instrument increases your IQ by 10 percent

By Sian Moore

Picking up a musical instrument gives you a higher IQ, according to a new study of more than 4,600 volunteers. New research has claimed that learning to play a musical instrument increases intelligence by 10 percent. In a six-month study co-ordinated by DIYS.com, the world’s largest DIY community, 4,694 volunteers chose a new hobby to take up during coronavirus lockdown. Among the chosen hobbies were knitting, exercising and learning an instrument. The volunteers then took an IQ test, before being grouped according to their chosen activity. After six months, they were retested, and researchers indexed and averaged their scores. The highest IQ increase came from the music-makers, averaging a score increase of 9.71 percent. Before they took up an instrument, the new musicians’ average IQ score was 103. When they were tested again, six months later, it had increased to 113. Scores for IQ tests, which are used to measure various cognitive reasoning skills, average around 100 in general. Music-making trumped other hobbies including knitting, which had an average score increase of 9.68 percent, exercising (7.37 percent) and reading (7.07 percent). According to the study, the most popular instrument was the guitar, with 31 percent of volunteers choosing to learn it. The cognitive impact of playing an instrument has been widely studied. A 2014 Ted Talk delivered by brain development and music learning researcher Dr. Anita Collins, which has been viewed over 10 million times, explains why “fireworks” go off in musicians’ brains when they play. Collins explains that when a musician plays an instrument, neuroscientists have seen multiple areas of the brain “light up” as it processes different information in “intricate, interrelated and astonishingly fast sequences”.

“Playing music is the brain’s equivalent of a full-body workout,” Collins adds.

A more recent study, led by experts at the Stanford University School of Medicine, found that musicians who started playing an instrument at a young age have more ‘connected’ brains. Using a sample pool of 153 musicians and non-musicians, researchers found a significant difference in brain structure in the musicians. More so, the team found that those who had starting playing at a young age had stronger brain connections than those who only started in later years. We’ve opened voting for the Classic FM Hall of Fame 2021! Tell us your favourite music and you could win a smart speaker, iPad and luxury hamper.

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Why are pianists skinny?

Pianoplaying can be hard work, and stressfull. I think playing piano intensivly makes you loose weight quickly. Also it's indeed probably so that thin hands help with technique , so that it ends up that most famous pianists have thin hands.

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Why do pianists tend to be skinny? 474244 07:20 AM Joined: Posts: 147 Houston, TX S SinspawnAmmes OP Full Member OP SinspawnAmmes Full Member S Joined: Posts: 147 Houston, TX

I was browsing through some biographies of various composers, and noticed all of this. Even the ones in their old age were noticeably slim (not necessarily fit), especially Liszt and Chopin, who looked like sticks all their lives. Or maybe it's because pianists made so little money they couldn't afford to feed themselves? Maybe its just coincidence, but all decent pianists I've seen are either slim or near anorexic. Is it because skinny people has longer/slimmer fingers, and can therefore play with more ease/technique, or just a natural thing, like sumo wrestlers having to be large?I was browsing through some biographies of various composers, and noticed all of this. Even the ones in their old age were noticeably slim (not necessarily fit), especially Liszt and Chopin, who looked like sticks all their lives. Or maybe it's because pianists made so little money they couldn't afford to feed themselves?

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