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3 unusual facts about Joseph Merklin


Joseph Merklin

After the war ended, he became a naturalized French citizen and in 1872 set up a new branch in Lyon.

Merklin was born in Oberhausen and was trained in his craft first by his father and then by Friedrich Hasse in Berne and Eberhard Friedrich Walcker in Ludwigsburg.

In 1867 the company's grand organ built for the Basilica of St. Epvre in Nancy received a Gold Medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris and Merklin was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur.



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