William Lyons appears all over the world as a specialist player of historic instruments. While not touring with his ensembles The Dufay Collective and The City Musick he can be heard as a featured instrumentalist on film, television, radio, in the theatre, and on numerous historical recordings playing the following instruments:
Recorders
Renaissance
Baroque
Modern.
3-hole pipe and tabor
Trad Whistles
Flutes
Medieval
Renaissance
Baroque
Trad Irish
Trad Indian
Modern [and alto]
Bagpipes
Renaissance G, D
Galician C, G
Provencal G
Irish Uilleann
Reeds
Shawms [all sizes]
Dulcian [bass, tenor, alto]
Crumhorns
Rackett
Other
Frame drums
Bodhran
Hurdy Gurdy
Jews Harp
