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Thrill Science, I think you have it RIGHT!

For a fantasy thread, it can be as much as you care to imagine!

Hmmm - me too - what?

Now that would be great. Assuming that "a lot of money" is like heaps and heaps of it, something like a "Personal Trainer" who came to the house daily and stayed with you while you practised for say 2 hours each day. Daily masterclasses.

After a quite unplanned visit to Allegro Piano last Saturday morning (NYC piano row), I'd have to say, without hesitation, that no piano on the floor, and there were/are MANY superb Bosendorfers, Bluthners and vintage Steinways, could compare to the Steingraebers. They truly are wonderful instruments.

With MY sudden windfall, I'd have to have a BIG, new Steingraeber.

I don't know what we'd do - pay off the mortgage, do some remodeling, some travel, and I'd definitely do something pianowise (have mine totally rebuilt or buy new).

I'd sure like the chance to find out. C'mon Publisher's Clearing House!

Matter of taste, of course, but I'd agree.

I'm shocked no one has said that they'd quit their jobs and post on PW ALL DAY!!!

This. In order for it to be piano related, I'd have to "come into" a lot of money. I live in a trailer, so it'd have to be enough to purchase house and piano both.
Assuming that, I'd purchase a home that met our needs and left me plenty of room for a large music room. I play guitar, bass and piano.
I'd set up a music room with a brand new, very powerful computer designed for music recording, along with the appropriate digital interface/mixer and mics and other necessary studio equipment(including room treatment), guitar/bass amps(got all the guitars I'll ever need. I build them). The centerpiece would be a 6 ft grand. Probably a nice Yamaha or Kawai.

If I come into a large sum of money any time soon I'll finally be able get the piano tuned. Things have gotten a little lean lately.

Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and many others had to...

Norbert

I'd do all my shopping at the Piano World on line store.

There's always TIY.

i would want a very large pool of money... a bottomless pit. I would then give it away... make people really happy. I don't really want for much. I have way too much stuff.

Nice one, apple*!

+1!

Well, maybe if I suddenly came into a lot of money I would not have to worry about retirement.

CNN says that in today's dollars I need $750K.

That does not even touch all the house maintenance/repair issues, the reliable transportation needs, etc. that have been delayed and will be ongoing.

So I guess I'll be playing my K3 for a long time!

Honestly I don't know how people with kids, mortgages, and car payments make do.

...I'd have a lot of people killed. If I had any left over, I'd buy a piano. Cheers!

-- No seriously, I wouldn't contemplate killing anybody. Well, maybe breaking a few legs... But then, definitely, a piano.

I'd build a recording/playing studio separate from my house with all the bells and whistles and upgrade my Estonia L190 to something much better.

But since my youngest son has designs on medical school it probably wont happen...

I'm very satisfied with my current piano. I can even afford to keep it tuned and maintained. I can and will retire sometime in the near future, but for now I still got a day job so I'm doing alright. As a professional musician I would starve.

Since I always find a beautiful piano to fall in love with, I'm sure I would use some of the "heaps of money" to add on a music room and buy another 2 or 3 pianos. I would have to put my piano teacher on retainer for years.

I'm incredibly lucky to have a loving family, great dog, comfortable house, great piano, and a job that keeps me too busy, but it pays the bills. Now, if I only had more time to practice.

One last post here from the original poster, I appreciate all the responses, and to be frivolous, I would purchase an Allen 4 manual theater organ just to enjoy and to annoy my neighbors. I could buy a better piano, but I feel that I don't deserve the one I own currently. I would love to learn to read proficiently, however I had seven weeks off this Summer, and all I did was swim and ride the motorcycle, and watch old TV shows. I need to keep moving or else I will dwindle to atrophy.