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Each week we bring you four of the most interesting objects from the world’s museums, galleries and art institutions, hand-picked to mark significant moments in the calendar. The summer solstice is upon us, and the streets of Paris are alive with the sound of music: it is time for the annual Fête de la Musique, which takes place this year on 21 June. The event, inaugurated in 1982 by the French Ministry of Culture and now celebrated in 120 countries around the world , invites musicians of all kinds to perform free concerts in public spaces, transforming them into fonts of melodies and rhythms, and bringing music out into the public realm.
Across classes and cultures, music has always been part of the fabric of artistic expression. Join us as we look at four objects that together explore the ways in which artists and craftspeople have for millennia been inspired by music – or in some cases, have helped create it. The piano played by Emily Brontë and her siblings, manufactured in 1820 by the firm of John Green.
Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth. Photo: Bevan Cockerill; © The Brontë Society The Brontës’ piano (1820), John Green Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth Emily Brontë is best known fo.