Graham Lyons, who died in June this year, was a musician and educator whose wide-ranging career defies easy categorisation. MT readers may know him best as an educational composer and the inventor of the Lyons C clarinet, but his other accomplishments might be less familiar.
Lyons learned the piano from the age of six, but, inspired by Benny Goodman, he switched to the clarinet at 13. After a period of national service, he enrolled to study physics at Oxford University. But he ended up spending most of his time on music, which brought his time at Oxford to an early close after only a year.
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