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I can't imagine Grammie allowing piano playing or secular music at Passover or New Years.
“The mixed singing at home in the family, especially of zmirot,” Jewish hymns, “is quite likely,” Michael Meyer, a renowned scholar of German Jewish history, wrote in an email. Secular songs, like the one sung by Gold’s family, would have been less likely, though not out of the question, Meyer said. “On the other hand, piano playing in a traditional home after the entry of Shabbat strikes me as most unlikely.”
“To play a piano definitely was not proper for an Orthodox family on Shabbat,” Hanno Loewy, director of the Jewish Museum Hohenems in Austria said in an email. Singing was kosher, “but secular songs I also would not expect.”
“To play a piano definitely was not proper for an Orthodox family on Shabbat,” Hanno Loewy, director of the Jewish Museum Hohenems in Austria said in an email. Singing was kosher, “but secular songs I also would not expect.”
But, that said - we did get a scene immediately preceding the Shoah in the Weimar Republic that re-humanizes the people murdered by the Nazis.
Haven't watched episode 10 yet - even though it is available. I'm going to go back and watch episode 8 through the eyes of the folks interviewed in this article.
And I loved Gold placing the rocks on his father's grave.
My husband did not understand the tradition. See - I learned something at the JCC's day camp! 
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