William Lyons appears all over the world as a specialist player of historic instruments.  While not touring with his ensemble The City Musick and other leading histrorical performance ensembles 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

Bagpipes

Renaissance
Provencal

Reeds

Shawms [all sizes]
Dulcian [bass, tenor, alto]
Crumhorns
Rackett

Other

Frame drums
Bodhran
Jews Harp