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Did you know that learning an instrument is the brain equivalent of a full-body workout? It's been shown in a number of studies that the process of learning an instrument - irrespective of how good you are at it - helps develop the brain, and crucially the sensory-motor functions, and in children the development between the two halves of the brain. Reading the music exercises one part of the brain, playing the instrument another, and hearing what you are doing and constantly modifying your motion in response to that is a third, and all three parts of brain must communicate...