It's never too late to start playing an instrument! 
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Children who play an instrument have better:

• verbal abilities
• second language learning
• reading achievement
• non-verbal reasoning
• auditory working memory
• ability to focus in noisy environments
• general intelligence 

See research studies: https://brainvolts.soc.northwestern.ed

Adults who learned to play instruments as children (but may not have played them in up to 40 years) outperform other adults who never played an instrument in:

• attention
• memory
• hearing
• speech processing