If you won the lotto...

[tubajon]

I'd get
Yamaha 822 F silver piston
Fafner BBb
PT-6 CC
Mirafone Firebird F
MW 2182 F
Eb Sousaphone
Holton BBb John Kuhn "Chief" raincatcher
5/4 Rudy Meinl CC four valves

Others

[ppalan]

Norwegian Star
PT-6 (silver)
Brewery
New Hardscaping in backyard

[Dylan King]

I don't play the lottery, and am very happy with what I have.

[bort]

I'm buying my wife a Porsche and a house for us in Spain. The rest will sort itself out.

[Frank Ortega]

I'd start up a factory and design my own!

[bisontuba]

I don't play the lottery, and am very happy with what I have.

+1...
Mark

[1895King]

I'D have Dan Oberloh do a full restoration on my ca. 1895 King BBb and my Peliti Eb helicon.

[Ben]

I would have my 164 overhauled at Gerb. Alexander. I would have them build me a 166 C/F double tuba to my specs (5v in addition to the change valve). Other than that, I'm very happy. I might even sell 2 horns pending on how well the ordered horn would be.

If I did win a lotto, I would invest a good portion for living expenses, and be looking for some real estate in NYC that I could install a whisper or wenger room for myself, students & quintet, and still have 3 bedrooms: 2 kids & wife would like a little space... Scratch that, I'd need a 4th bedroom - my wife wants a studio space for her own endeavors. That is my pony.

[MartyNeilan]

I don't play the lottery, and am very happy with what I have.

Well said.

[Michael Bush]

I don't play the lottery, but I do have this fantasy about suddenly having a hundred million or so. I think it would be cool to put it in a private foundation, pay myself a comfortable salary to manage it, and use the five million+ it would throw off every year to strengthen band and orchestra programs in schools and communities.

No doubt I would also think more expensive tubas would make sense than I do now, but have no idea what I'd get. Maybe I'd see if Dan Oberloh would make me one of these:
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[bort]

I play the lottery once in a while, when the jackpot gets high enough. I don't play all the time, out of fear that I might win a $1,000,000 prize and have to split it with 6 other people. After splitting it and after taxes, it's just not enough money to waste my once-in-a-lifetime win opportunity on it.

[Bob Kolada]

Large bass tuba- Miraphone 1281 in the lead, perhaps with six valves?
5/6 valve euphonium, matching the tuba
F contrabass trombone
-I've been close (owned one of each but not at the same time as any other ).

Motorcycle, sensible condo near but not downtown, two fridges, Samsung Note,...

[sousaphone68]

Every time I play the lottery a little voice in my head says "remember the lottery is a tax on the mathematically challenged"

[Tom]

I'd start by buying back two of the good instruments that I sold:

Canadian Brass CB-50
Rudy Meinl 5/4 CC (4 valves)

Add to that a couple of others, and I'd be set:

Buescher rotary CC built by Matt Walters. Has been for sale a couple times. Don't know where it is now. I wasn't smart enough to buy it when I had the opportunity.

Conn short action custom piston CC from Dillon Music (I think built by Matt) - owned by a student at the OU Tuba Workshop in maybe 2000 or 2001. Don't know where it is now. It played really well. I've never seen or heard any mention of it since then.

Alexander F tuba.

The Chester Schmitz Alexander 163.

I'd send my Alexander 163 out for restoration, too, if money were no object.

All of that said, I really quite happy with what I have at the moment and am unlikely to own any of those instruments in the future.

[Tewbacca]

Building off of Bort's idea, I think I would like a set of Tuonos, one in every key, and an army of peons to transport and maintain them for me. That way, when the 1st trumpet changes horns all the time, I can be just as cool

[GC]

If there was REAL money involved, I'd build a performing arts center in my town that would have a theater optimized for music, a theater made for drama, and a mixed-use venue, along with various offices, storage, warmup areas, changing rooms, locker rooms, and so on. Then I'd hire professionals with actual documented results to run it.

I live in a small town with a long-running symphony orchestra, a community band, a brass band, a Civil War-oriented museum band, until recently a New Horizons band, two community theater groups, a couple of Big Bands, several smaller jazz groups, and two well-established college music programs (one rising and one, unfortunately, going into eclipse), plus the hope of a new music program at another local college. Performance and rehearsal venues are a constant issue; the large venue built a couple of decades ago is an acoustic horror, and the older, smaller venues have acoustic and space issues and are constant maintenance problems. Groups are bouncing from place to place for rehearsal space, and only the assistance of the local colleges has kept some of them alive.

And a few horns just for fun would be good, too.

[tubatom91]

I would have my Holton 345 customized/restored/re-plated (still keep it BBb though). I would likely get a PT-20P or maybe I'd buy a PT-7P for kicks. Then I'd buy a nice rotary F, likely a Miraphone. I might overhaul my 188CC into something cool (strip it, vent it)

[Biggs]

Since bloke has forecast a (the?) "collapse" wherein currency would become valueless, I would immediately spend all the money on a mercenary army and take all your tubas by force.

I'd also buy a puppy dog.

[Michael Bush]

Well, strictly speaking, it's true.

If one does not buy a ticket, he has zero chances out of eleventy bazillion jillion.

If one does buy a ticket, he has one chance out of eleventy bazillion jillion.

Whether the difference is material I leave all and sundry to decide for themselves.

[tubajon]

"Not really, but its clear you know nothing about odds-making, let alone statistics or even basic math but go ahead and piss your money away buying lotto tickets, after all "everyones doing it!""

I'll accept that I'm not an educated man. However, I can be taught! I'd love to learn about odds-making, basic math and statistics. If you can find time, please teach me something. If not, maybe I'll try to figure out what you know that I don't about playing the lotto at least once/year. Any old idiot can play the tuba.