Minor Correction,\u00a0 there is no evidence Lowry played the clarinet.\u00a0 There is evidence he also played the bass saxophone as well as banjo and bandolin in the Joan Sawyer Persian Room Orchestra,\u00a0 and is recorded as playing the alto sax as much as banjo in France, though he seems to have shifted chiefly to the tenor banjo by the late 1920s.\u00a0 However,\u00a0 especially at this time, most musicians who could play several saxes could also play clarinet.\u00a0 In one of his reminiscence interviews about the Clef Club days published in the NY Age in the late 1940s or early 1950s,\u00a0 Noble Sissle explains that in the \"society\" gigs Clef club bands were sent to, especially in playing in the private palaces of NYC,\u00a0 Philiadelphia, and Palm Beach's super rich and the post clubs the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers and Wanamakers frequented,\u00a0 it was considered inappropriate for Black musicians to play horns\u00a0 of any kind.\u00a0 String instruments were acceptable and the piano in Reese Europe's eyes was a stringed instrument, given that his sister was a performing classical pianist who accompanied.Samuel Coleridge-Taylor\u00a0 during his visits to the US.\u00a0<\/span> \u00a0 However, Eubie Blake who was a Pianist with them at the tinme explains the Clef Clubbers were never allowed to use the fine Steinways and Becksteins in these mansions.\u00a0 The wealthy would rent a lesser piano for black hands to play.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n <\/dd>\n