RAUCH, —— Wurtzburg.
Otto praises the instruments of the two brothers of Breslau and Wurtzburg. He says they are excellent violins but have a shape and model peculiar to themselves and entirely different to the Italian or Steiners, but possess when uninjured a full, round and powerful tone. If Otto had told us what instruments were like instead of what they were not like, his book would have been more valuable.
RAUT, JEAN, Bretagne. He was at Rennes till 1790. Made good instruments after the Guarnerius school.
RAYMAN, JACOB, London, 1641. The instruments of this maker were very highly valued formerly. He is considered one of our best old English artistes.
REICHEL, JOHANN GOTTFRIED, Absom. An imitator of Steiner.
REICHEL, JOHANN CONRAD, Neukirch, 1779.
REISS, —— Bamburg. A capital imitator of Steiner, and made excellent instruments.
REMY, —— Paris.
RENISTO, —— Cremona, 1740, pupil of Carlo Bergonzi. His instruments are very similar to those of his master, but rather higher modelled, and the workmanship somewhat rougher.
RETANTINO, —— No particulars of this maker.