Visitors to the Brontë Parsonage Museum will be able to “play” a special instrument set up in the garden.

Their sounds will be mixed with others from around the country as part of an ambitious new musical project.

The museum is one of 24 public sites across the UK taking part in the Fragmented Orchestra.

A sound box in the garden will transmit sounds of the Brontë moors to the FACT Gallery, in Liverpool.

They will be mixed with sounds from other sites, including the National Portrait Gallery, Gloucester Cathedral and Everton Football Club.

The aim is to create a dynamic new musical composition which can be directly affected by people across the country. A spokesman said the Fragmented Orchestra was a huge, geographically distributed musical structure that mirrored the function of the human brain and the way it processes sounds.

The effect would be a compelling and ever-changing new instrument and composition evolving across the UK. Jenna Holmes, arts officer at the parsonage, said the Brontë Society was delighted to be involved with the unique project.

She said: “We hope the public will be intrigued to come and discover The Fragmented Orchestra for themselves.

“There really is a special atmosphere at the museum at this time of year.

“It is incredible to think that the sounds here at the Parsonage, such as the church clock, wind whistling from the moors and the rooks that nest in the trees, will be heard by thousands of people at sites across the country.

“This is yet another example of how the museum is committed to engaging with contemporary art in all its forms and enabling new audiences to discover the Brontës.”

The Fragmented Orchestra is free on admission to the museum and will run until February 22.

The orchestra is designed by composers John Matthias, Jane Grant and Nick Ryan and is the winner of the PRS Foundation’s New Music Award 2008.