Factors influencing students’ choice of musical instruments: A case study of Tertiary Institutions in South-Eastern Nigeria

Love of one’s musical instrument as a predictor of happiness and satisfaction with musical experience

“…There have been scholarly studies that have been indirectly, if not directly, relevant to the questions addressed in this article. For example, Onwubiko (2016) found that musical acoustics play a major role in children’s choice of instrument: Children simply like certain kinds of sounds more than others and are drawn as a result to instruments whose sounds they find more to their liking. Schmidt and Lewis (1988) found that preference for one timbre versus another is a key factor in students’ decisions as to what instrument to play, as well as in their achievement and continuation in playing that instrument.…”