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Unfortunately, at the moment the media apparently think the most important individual bodies of the solar system are Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett.
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Well, Michael Jackson with Moonwalker did give a certain idea of what moonlife is like. But he certainly seems like a son of Mercury: fast and expressive, if superficial. (I just heard someone say that Jackson died over $500 million in debt. How does anyone spend that much in one lifetime?)
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.. But I can't imagine how Jupiter or Saturn might sound. They're just lights in the sky.
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Jupiter's identifying sound would probably be authoritarian or regal, since it's big and a median planet (moving light in the sky). "J" was like "I", as in "Yahweh"; "John", "Joan", "Jane", the "Jon" in "Jonathan", etc derive from this. "James" and "Jacob" derive from "supplanter". Saturn, his father, moves nearby.
If you are actually wondering what sound might be associated with the planets, I am very interested in this, but not precisely in the Pythagorean sense per se. The solar system is full of periods. No one denies that the tidal day, the lunar month, and the solar day have an extreme influence on people. Well, those are relative periods, which, if moved into the range of human hearing, might have some natural mental resonance. I have played around with this a little, but have not come to any great clarity on how to do it. Kepler had his own sounds of the spheres, which I also find interesting in a different way.
Assuming humans ever make it that far, Earth might become a light in the sky, then invisible.