Douglas wrote:I would bribe Geoff Wooff into making me a new C# set, at the top of his list. K&Q into making me a D set and someone to make me a MacGregor Barrel, probably a narrow bore D. And then hire a teacher.
I would definitely move, but where I don't know.
Maybe, just maybe, if I had that much money my wife would stop griping and nagging.
Probably not though.
Screw that, you could just buy Geoff Woofe and Q&K and keep them your castle for when you need that next set of pipes!
Take a place at Davy Stephenson´s apprenticeship and then start my own workshop
$40mUS=£20mUK so with that sort of money I would aim for personnal tuition by employing the top makers either AF or GW to come to my own newly set up workshop
Then again why bother - just buy everyone off their respective waiting lists and have them as my own personal makers working full time on sets from eb to low G all for myself - sets for all occasions.
What the money would not buy of course is the ability to do the sets justice
Tell us something.: “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
Harry wrote:I'd buy talent... oh yeah, you can't buy that. In that case I'd buy experience... hmmm that seems unlikely too.
I'd just blow 20 0r 30 grand on buying a knackered old set from some greedy bollocks and rent bikini women to tell me that I was great. Oh yeah, and a pool, and a big house for all this to go down in... on an island, which I would have placed equidistance between Boston and Westport.
Alternativly, you could start a crap dance show to appeal to the lowest of all common denaminators and make big $$$s (asuming that you have a suitably greasy chest).
Regards,
Harry
Harry,
all this is possible in Miami (save the location of the island)!!!
I would also get back into Jiu-jitsu again and Iaido.
Actually I have been looking around for instructors lately. I found someone fairly close for the Jiu-jitsu. It is a problem of no time. The money would free that up.
A week's worth of tango lessons with Emma Thompson in a rooftop garden in Paris whilst sipping from a bottomless flute of Veuve would do wonders for my piping......I really think it would.
Speaking of iaido:
after 25 years of practise I can now open the case, assemble the set, and be ready to go, with the bass drone pointing in a threatening manner at the bodhran player's privates, all in under 1 second.
A 35 yr old.manager & his wife won here at my work by themselves won the $27M lottery last May.
Lucky @#$%^#$! I'm happy for him though.
Talk about Freedom 35!!