# Musicians' brains as pie charts

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**Created:** [September 17, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-brains-as-pie-charts/821495 "2018-09-17T21:24:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 17, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musicians-brains-as-pie-charts/821495/1 "2018-09-17T21:24:39Z")

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> **[Musicians’ brains: each instrument broken down into pie charts](https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2016/03/11/musicians-brains-instrument-broken-pie-charts/)**
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> The superb Classic FM have made a brilliant series of pie-charts which they describe as “Musicians’ brains: each instrument broken down into pie charts. “What percentage of a musician’s brain thinks about which issues? We’ve conducted a scientific...

🙂

Such a pity we can’t embed graphics.

The Classic FM article to which the above page refers is [here](https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/jazz-classical-musicians-brains/) and the original study is [here](http://www.cbs.mpg.de/brains-of-jazz-and-classical-pianists-work-differently).