If you can get to Boston that means you have a proxsimity to Stan and Music Emporium in Lexington . Also Tony at Fretted Workshop of Amherst. I played a Ball bearing 1925 MAstertone as an open back for some years but got pulled away by a very wonderful Mike Ramsey banjo with a wider and deeper pot made for Tony at Fretted Workshop..Its a very very loud banjo with quite a personal voice all its own. . Tons of great banjos out there. Good luck . Guy